linux-kernel - Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.

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Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:05:39 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> This patch switches the payload of a bzImage file to be in compressed 
>> ELF format. There are several rough edges which need to be addressed 
>> before it could go any further but I'd be interested to hear your 
>> opinion of the general approach before I spend time cleaning it up.
>>
>> I'm mainly interested in something along these lines to allow the Xen 
>> bootloader to load a bzImage so that distros don't have to maintain 
>> two kernel packages with the same basic bits in different file 
>> formats, I think it would probably be of use to the kexec and/or 
>> lguest folks too.
> 
> this looks quite interesting to me. Peter, what do you think?
> 

Definitely the right thing, let's just get the rough edges taken care 
of, in particular the CRC32 bit.

	-hpa
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