Re: another RFC patch: bzImage with ELF payload

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>     
>>> BTW, this won't apply as-is; I have some mucking-around patches to try
>>> and get the linux/elf*.h headers into a bit more order, but that's not
>>> ready yet.
>>>   
>>>       
>> BTW2: I've been basically ignoring zImage.  Do we need to support it at
>> all?  Has anyone used it in the last 10 years?
>>     
>
> zImage is uninteresting.  I think HPA explicitly dropped support a few
> years ago so we can't even build it.
>   

Hm, its still there, and he put explicit support for it into the new
bootcode rewrite.  Doesn't boot for me though.

> That said a bImage (non-compressed bzImage).  Might actually be
> interesting.
>   

That's pretty easy in my current plan.  You just glue vmlinux into the
image rather than compressor+compressed data.

    J
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