linux-kernel - Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt

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Message-ID: <4658CE90.5090008@goop.org>
Date:	Sun, 27 May 2007 01:19:28 +0100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pardon me for saying it, but it's hardly a hardship to add support for a
> single additional constant in existing code.  I'm starting to think this
> argument is approaching not just the silly, but downright ridiculous.
>   

Well, if the existing code is a standard libelf/libbfd, it could be tricky.

> Another option is to have the ELF header at a nonzero offset.
>   

Yes, that's exactly what I'm proposing.

    J
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