On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:50:56AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:31:38PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > [..] > >> +int bzImage64_probe(const char *buf, off_t len) > >> +{ > >> + const struct x86_linux_header *header; > >> + if ((uintmax_t)len < (uintmax_t)(2 * 512)) { > >> + if (probe_debug) { > >> + fprintf(stderr, "File is too short to be a bzImage!\n"); > >> + } > >> + return -1; > >> + } > >> + header = (const struct x86_linux_header *)buf; > >> + if (memcmp(header->header_magic, "HdrS", 4) != 0) { > >> + if (probe_debug) { > >> + fprintf(stderr, "Not a bzImage\n"); > >> + } > >> + return -1; > >> + } > >> + if (header->boot_sector_magic != 0xAA55) { > >> + if (probe_debug) { > >> + fprintf(stderr, "No x86 boot sector present\n"); > >> + } > >> + /* No x86 boot sector present */ > >> + return -1; > >> + } > >> + if (header->protocol_version < 0x020C) { > >> + if (probe_debug) { > >> + fprintf(stderr, "Must be at least protocol version 2.12\n"); > >> + } > >> + /* Must be at least protocol version 2.12 */ > >> + return -1; > >> + } > >> + if ((header->loadflags & 1) == 0) { > >> + if (probe_debug) { > >> + fprintf(stderr, "zImage not a bzImage\n"); > >> + } > >> + /* Not a bzImage */ > >> + return -1; > >> + } > >> + if (!(header->xloadflags & 1)) { > >> + if (probe_debug) { > >> + fprintf(stderr, "Not a bzImage64\n"); > >> + } > >> + /* Must be LOADED_ABOVE_4G */ > >> + return -1; > >> + } > > > > So how do I force a 16bit or 32bit entry using a bzImage64? > > kexec -t bzImage -l .... > will load low and use 32bit entry. > > kexec -t bzImage64 -l ... > kexec -l ... > will try to load high and use 64bit entry. Also bzImage64 is not really a new image format. It is just enhancement of bzImage format. We keep on doing extention of bzImage and don't call it a new image format. I am not sure how good an idea it is to export the notion of new image type bzImage64 to user. Thanks Vivek