"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/