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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
