"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> So we won't do this casually and if it there are real problems we will >> remove the ELF magic number. >> > > I think we can use ELF-compatible format just fine, but it would make > more sense to use a non-ELF magic number from the start, instead of > signalling it with a note. Since bootloaders need to be aware, anyway, > they can just detect this magic and treat is as an Linux calling > convention ELF image, or they can not detect it, and treat it as a > bzImage. As a side benefit, we: > > a) can use a magic number that contains a jump instruction (to keep the > non-bootsector happy); > b) get a proper Linux kernel magic number. To the best of my knowledge I have already resolved both of those concerns, in my current code. Eric _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
