Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:25:11 -0400
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Increasingly the cobbled together boot protocol that
> is bzImage does not have the flexibility to deal
> with booting in new situations.
> 
> Now that we no longer support the bootsector loader
> we have 512 bytes at the very start of a bzImage that
> we can use for other things.
> 
> Placing an ELF header there allows us to retain
> a single binary for all of x86 while at the same
> time describing things that bzImage does not allow
> us to describe.

Seems that the entire kernel effort is an ongoing plot to make my poor
little Vaio stop working.  This patch turns it into a black-screened rock
as soon as it does grub -> linux.  Stock-standard FC5 install, config at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt.
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