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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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