Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kexec as a boot loader allows to load both ELF vmlinux file or bzImage. > Hence for kdump, a user got the flexibility to either use vmlinux or > bzImage for dump captruing purposes. Hence I am concerned about both. > > If real mode code is linked with vmlinux, then kdump will be broken. > > bzImage is relocatable. If a new kernel image format is introduced > (compressed ELF), then I will prefer it to be a relocatable one > (if possible).
If we do make the real mode code findable from a set of ELF headers instead of a weird program header it should be an ELF note in the note segment that tells us where to find or possibly contains the real mode code. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
