Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Thu May 31 2007 - 04:09:28 EST


On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:16:55PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I think we should start there and be prepared to munge the ELF
> > magic number if there are problems. Placing ELF notes is going
> > to require a little work but mostly it should be a matter of
> > copying the from vmlinux.
> >
>
> Do you have a semi-current ELF bzImage patch on hand I can start playing
> with?
>

Following is the link to the patch which was posted last time and made
into -mm. But andrew had some old Fedora machine (I think FC2) and some
lilo version on that machine which failed to boot, hence this patch was
dropped.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115989722229057&w=2

Thanks
Vivek
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