Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> I'd really prefer to keep an intact embedded ELF file rather than have a
> semi-ELF file.  That way it would be easier to simply load the image and
> point the normal ELF machinery at some offset into the file rather than
> having to have a special handler for "\x7fBZE" or whatever.
> 

Pardon me for saying it, but it's hardly a hardship to add support for a
single additional constant in existing code.  I'm starting to think this
argument is approaching not just the silly, but downright ridiculous.

Another option is to have the ELF header at a nonzero offset.

	-hpa
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