[coreboot] [PATCH] mkelfImage: set kernel_alignment so 2.6.31+work

Gregg Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 10:48:36 CEST 2010


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
> Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> writes:
>
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> >> At the moment I want to mandate a bzImage for x86, but I'm not
>>> >> certain if that is practical the way we build images for coreboot.
>> ..
>>> I think I need to ensure that linux builds a bImage.  So that you
>>> can have an uncompress bzImage.  For this embedded case.
>>
>> bImage would help make mkelfImage's life easier staying forward
>> compatible?
>
> Wow.  This project got paged out :(
>
> Always working with a bzImage format would help with being compatible.
> Having an uncompressed kernel aka a bImage in that format would help
> having a smaller total size, by not needing to have a decompressor
> in both the kernel image and in coreboot.
>
> Eric
>
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Hello!
I can see where this is traveling to. It is indeed taking a long time
to get there.

However what about the kexec tools? I freely admit that the kernel
function is now a part of the basic kernel configuration. But what
about the tools themselves? As it happens my newer Slackware Linux
system is running a 2.6.33.4-smp kernel. (Dual P4 system, with
features that lend itself to Coreboot, if it wasn't for specialized
functions that machine claims to need.)

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