On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:46:18PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > >> The boot protocol change is in 2.6.21 for arch/i386. > >> > >> HPA looked at it a while ago. > >> > >> All it does is set a flag that tells a bootloader. > >> "Hey. I can run when loaded a non-default address, and this is what > >> you have to align me to." > >> > >> All relocation processing happens in the kernel itself. > >> > >> So it is all pretty trivial. > >> > > > > Indeed. We *did* find some problems with Grub with the early versions, > > those were addressed. > > We found some failures that weren't root caused so we went to this > more conservative version. > > RHEL5 is actually shipping the original version of these patches if I > recall correctly. >
Yes, RHEL5 is shipping original version of patches where an where and ELF header has been added to describe bzImage. Thanks Vivek - 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/
