similar to: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

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 implements a loader for version 2.07 boot protocol bzImage format files. This allows a single bzImage kernel file to boot either native from a normal bootloader (grub, etc), or paravirtualized under Xen. These bzImages have two changes to make this possible: 1. There's a new field for the bootloader to tell the booted kernel what kind of environment its coming up under. We

This implements a loader for version 2.07 boot protocol bzImage format files. This allows a single bzImage kernel file to boot either native from a normal bootloader (grub, etc), or paravirtualized under Xen. These bzImages have two changes to make this possible: 1. There's a new field for the bootloader to tell the booted kernel what kind of environment its coming up under. We

This implements a loader for version 2.07 boot protocol bzImage format files. This allows a single bzImage kernel file to boot either native from a normal bootloader (grub, etc), or paravirtualized under Xen. These bzImages have two changes to make this possible: 1. There's a new field for the bootloader to tell the booted kernel what kind of environment its coming up under. We

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> 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. >> > > Is it possible to decompress and

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> 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. >> > > Is it possible to decompress and

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've updated the patches at http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/paravirt/?mf=33ba6c4fce13;path=/ to carve out the basic shape of how I see all this fitting together. These patches implement an initial set of Xen paravirt ops, as well as adapting head.S to set up a Xen-specific entrypoint. The head.S code does absolutely minimal setup, and then calls xen_start_kernel(). This installs the Xen

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 ---

Hi, Today I replaced grub(1) with syslinux on my laptop, after rebooting to syslinux and selecting kernel I got massive freeze along with colorful output to screen - http://i.imgur.com/lFjFc.jpg I think I tried everything, even doing esc and writing after boot: /bzImage-3.1.0, after enter I had the same freeze with the same screen artefacts. How I installed extlinux: mkdir /boot/extlinux