Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3

[Eric W. Biederman]

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Kexec as a boot loader allows to load both ELF vmlinux file or bzImage.
> Hence for kdump, a user got the flexibility to either use vmlinux or 
> bzImage for dump captruing purposes. Hence I am concerned about both. 
>
> If real mode code is linked with vmlinux, then kdump will be broken.
>
> bzImage is relocatable. If a new kernel image format is introduced
> (compressed ELF), then I will prefer it to be a relocatable one
> (if possible).

If we do make the real mode code findable from a set of ELF headers
instead of a weird program header it should be an ELF note in the note
segment that tells us where to find or possibly contains the real mode
code.

Eric
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