Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: I'm proposing that the existing bzImage format be retained, but that the payload of the decompressor (already a gzip file) simply be vmlinux.gz -- i.e. a gzip compressed ELF file, notes and all. A pointer in the header will point to the offset of

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm proposing that the existing bzImage format be retained, but that > the payload of the decompressor (already a gzip file) simply be > vmlinux.gz -- i.e. a gzip compressed ELF file, notes and all. A > pointer in the header will point to the offset of the payload (this is

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
H. Peter Anvin wrote: No, not at all. I'm proposing that the existing bzImage format be retained, but that the payload of the decompressor (already a gzip file) simply be vmlinux.gz -- i.e. a gzip compressed ELF file, notes and all. A pointer in the header will point to the offset of the p

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: This series looks like a good start for Xen, but we still need to work out where to stash the metadata which normally lives in ELF notes. Using ELF is convenient for Xen because it lets a large chunk of domain builder code be reused; on the othe

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> This series looks like a good start for Xen, but we still need to work >> out where to stash the metadata which normally lives in ELF notes. >> Using ELF is convenient for Xen because it lets a large chunk of domain >> builder code be reused; on the other hand, loading a p

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: Hi all, Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to push them for 2.6.

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rusty Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an > update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). > I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to > push them for 2.6.24 (after correcting

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rusty Russell wrote: Hi all, Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to push them for 2.6.24 (after correcting for the

[PATCH 0/5] Boot protocol changes

2007-10-02 Thread Rusty Russell
Hi all, Jeremy had some boot changes for bzImages, but buried in there was an update to the boot protocol to support Xen and lguest (and kvm-lite). I've copied those fairly simple patches, and if HPA is happy I'd like to push them for 2.6.24 (after correcting for the Great Arch Merge of co