On 01/31/2013 02:16 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>
>> Some utterly weird things like the Xen domain builder do that, because
>> they have to. That is why we explicitly document that the payload is
>> ELF and how to access it in the bzImage spec.
>
> Are you kidding?
>
> And what format do they expect?
>
I think they can be fairly flexible. Obviously gzip is always
supported. I don't know the details.
> If people are doing weird things with formats we're about to remove then
> it's their fault if they didn't make upstream developers aware of it.
> And if the reason they didn't tell anyone is because it is too nasty for
> public confession then they simply deserve to be broken and come up with
> a more sustainable solution.
Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called
"paravirtualization".
-hpa
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