similar to: another RFC patch: bzImage with ELF payload

I started with Vivek's ELF bzImage patch from Oct last year, mashed it to apply to hpa's new setup/boot code. This patch does a couple of things, which would probably be better split into multiple patches: 1. Glue an ELF header onto the front of bzImage. This is a real ELF header at the front of the file. Breaks akpm's laptop, apparently, but it works for me. 2.

I started with Vivek's ELF bzImage patch from Oct last year, mashed it to apply to hpa's new setup/boot code. This patch does a couple of things, which would probably be better split into multiple patches: 1. Glue an ELF header onto the front of bzImage. This is a real ELF header at the front of the file. Breaks akpm's laptop, apparently, but it works for me. 2.

This series: 1. Updates the boot protocol to version 2.07 2. Clean up the existing build process, to get rid of tools/build and make the linker do more heavy lifting 3. Make the bzImage payload an ELF file. The bootloader can extract this as a naked ELF file by skipping over boot_params.setup_sects worth of 16-bit setup code. 4. Update the boot_params to 2.07, and update the

This series: 1. Updates the boot protocol to version 2.07 2. Clean up the existing build process, to get rid of tools/build and make the linker do more heavy lifting 3. Make the bzImage payload an ELF file. The bootloader can extract this as a naked ELF file by skipping over boot_params.setup_sects worth of 16-bit setup code. 4. Update the boot_params to 2.07, and update the

This series updates the boot protocol to 2.07 and uses it to implement paravirtual booting. This allows the bootloader to tell the kernel what kind of hardware/pseudo-hardware environment it's coming up under, and the kernel can use the appropriate boot sequence code. Specifically: - Update the boot protocol to 2.07, which adds fields to specify the hardware subarchitecture and some

This series updates the boot protocol to 2.07 and uses it to implement paravirtual booting. This allows the bootloader to tell the kernel what kind of hardware/pseudo-hardware environment it's coming up under, and the kernel can use the appropriate boot sequence code. Specifically: - Update the boot protocol to 2.07, which adds fields to specify the hardware subarchitecture and some

This series updates the boot protocol to 2.07 and uses it to implement paravirtual booting. This allows the bootloader to tell the kernel what kind of hardware/pseudo-hardware environment it's coming up under, and the kernel can use the appropriate boot sequence code. Specifically: - Update the boot protocol to 2.07, which adds fields to specify the hardware subarchitecture and some

[ This patch depends on the cross-architecture ELF cleanup patch. ] This series updates the boot protocol to 2.07 and uses it to implement paravirtual booting. This allows the bootloader to tell the kernel what kind of hardware/pseudo-hardware environment it's coming up under, and the kernel can use the appropriate boot sequence code. Specifically: - Update the boot protocol to 2.07, which

[ This patch depends on the cross-architecture ELF cleanup patch. ] This series updates the boot protocol to 2.07 and uses it to implement paravirtual booting. This allows the bootloader to tell the kernel what kind of hardware/pseudo-hardware environment it's coming up under, and the kernel can use the appropriate boot sequence code. Specifically: - Update the boot protocol to 2.07, which

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

>I have just checked it, the startup.elf and realmode.elf are fine. Only few changes are required for mainline kernel and one >commit has to be reverted from lld and a few patches have to be applied. > >The only step when I have used BFD is linking vmlinux. I have manually set LD variable in vmlinux_link() function. The vmlinux >produced by lld doesn't work yet. I will compare

I compiled the pvops kernel like this : [root@localhost xen-4.0.0]# ls buildconfigs config Config.mk.orig dist extras install.sh Makefile README tools xen build-linux-2.6-pvops_x86_32 Config.mk COPYING docs file linux-2.6-pvops.git messages stubdom unmodified_drivers [root@localhost build-linux-2.6-pvops_x86_32]# make -j2 bzImage

I compiled the pvops kernel like this : [root@localhost xen-4.0.0]# ls buildconfigs config Config.mk.orig dist extras install.sh Makefile README tools xen build-linux-2.6-pvops_x86_32 Config.mk COPYING docs file linux-2.6-pvops.git messages stubdom unmodified_drivers [root@localhost build-linux-2.6-pvops_x86_32]# make -j2 bzImage

The ELF relocation record format is different for N64 which many Mips 64 ABIs use than for O64 which many if not all other target ABIs use. The question I have is whether to treat N64 as a valid generic variant or should it be treated as target specific? My contention is that it should be treated as an alternative generic format handled recognized and handled in the ELF class objects above the

Hello, I've got a rather strange setup over here with about 6 ext3 partitions, one 50gig lvm partition and one 2 gig software-raid1 partition running under a heavily patched 2.4.10 kernel (various netfilter patches, freeswan, current lvm patch (1.0.1-rc4 and current ext3 patch). Furthermore I have all of those neccessary filesystem tools, so don't tell me to upgrade :-) The machine was