Re: [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin1/3

[H. Peter Anvin]

Vivek Goyal wrote:
> I don't know much about Gujin, but advantage here seems to be that it has
> capability to load elf files and that's why the attempt to turn kernel binary
> into a compressed elf image. Why don't we then simply add an ELF header to
> bzImage and Gujin and any ELF loader including Gujin, should be able to load
> it? (As Eric had done in one of the implementations in the past?) Why to 
> create the new infrastructure?

Well, Gujin wants additional code too.

Putting an ELF header on bzImage broke some bootloaders (GRUB, I 
believe), so that's not going to happen again.  See the relocatable 
bzImage thread...

	-hpa

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