Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
>   

Well, if the existing code is a standard libelf/libbfd, it could be tricky.

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

Yes, that's exactly what I'm proposing.

    J
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