>>> On 22.10.13 at 15:53, Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 09:42 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >> Looking at the Fedora GRUB2 source, the 'struct linux_kernel_header' is > defined >> in the linux/Documentation/x86/boot.txt and hpa is pretty strict >> about making it backwards compatible. It also seems to support Xen! >> >> (Interestingly enough we do have this structure in the code: see >> setup_header in arch/x86/bzimage.c) > > There will be another usage in tools/libxc/...bzimage too > > FWIW I think we only use this stuff for the magic number/version and the > payload_offset/length fields, which we do in order to extract the > payload (ELF file) for booting dom0 and domU. It's not AFAIK used for > booting Xen itself or lets say, that's not why I added it ;-)).
Indeed, we only use this to handle bzImage type kernels. Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
