On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:38 AM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> > so will cost every bzImage extra memory copy? that could be 18M or
> > even more big.
> >
>
> I wouldn't worry about that. You will typically have several copies of the
> images during the executio
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:25 AM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:38 AM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > so will cost every bzImage extra memory copy? that could be 18M or
> > > >
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the
> opportunity to extract the ELF file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[E
Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:38 AM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>> so will cost every bzImage extra memory copy? that could be 18M or
>>> even more big.
>>>
>> I wouldn't worry about that. You will typically have several copies of the
>> imag
Yinghai Lu wrote:
> so will cost every bzImage extra memory copy? that could be 18M or
> even more big.
I wouldn't worry about that. You will typically have several copies of
the images during the execution of the boot loader.
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On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> so will cost every bzImage extra memory copy? that could be 18M or
> even more big.
Is it a huge deal for something that happens exactly once on boot? How
does the time take compare with the time to do the decompression?
18M seems like an aw
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>> Do you also have a patch to update the boot protocol?
>>
>
> Looking for anything different than the root of this thread?
Yes, the patch for the Xen domain builder to boot a bzImage using the
Linux boot protocol rather than the Xen one. Ia
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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> Do you also have a patch to update the boot protocol?
>
Looking for anything different than the root of this thread?
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Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
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>> I have a xen domain builder patch as well. I was waiting for the Linux
>> side to gain some traction before putting it forward (I'd attach it
>> now but it's at home on a laptop which is sleeping).
>>
>
> Here
Ian Campbell wrote:
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> Agreed. Probably the same deal as the compression format, i.e. use the
> magic number but only ELF is possible today (even less likely to change
> than the compression format I guess...).
>
Quite.
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On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
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> > > +Field name:compressed_payload_offset
> > > +Type: read
> > > +Offset/size: 0x248/4
> > > +Protocol: 2.08+
> > > +
> > > + If non-zero then this field contains the offset from the end of
> the
> > > + rea
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:37 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> With this, AFLAGS would apply to building when building the
> prerequisites of header.o too, which you don't want
>
> The make manual says:
>
> "when you define a target-specifi
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> I have a xen domain builder patch as well. I was waiting for the Linux
> side to gain some traction before putting it forward (I'd attach it
> now but it's at home on a laptop which is sleeping).
Here it is:
# HG changeset patch
# User
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:34 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:54 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the
> > > opportunity to extract the ELF file.
> >
> >
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:34 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:54 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the
> > opportunity to extract the ELF file.
>
> Right, Xen currently can't boot bzImage (it needs the ELF ima
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:54 +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the
> opportunity to extract the ELF file.
Right, Xen currently can't boot bzImage (it needs the ELF image) so you
still can't use the same kernel image on Xen as bare-met
This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the
opportunity to extract the ELF file.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL
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