linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

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Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:30:43 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
CC:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> Agreed. Probably the same deal as the compression format, i.e. use the
> magic number but only ELF is possible today (even less likely to change
> than the compression format I guess...).
> 

Quite.

	-hpa
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