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Re: [Xen-devel] booting Xen from EFI
| To: | "Keir Fraser" <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] booting Xen from EFI |
| From: | "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:22:01 +0100 |
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>>> On 15.06.11 at 16:55, Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 15/06/2011 13:48, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 3) GrUB decompresses simple gzip-ed binaries (i.e. the traditional >> non-bzImage kernel), but with EFI Xen will need to do so itself. >> The most obvious choice would seem be to allow for all currently >> supported compression methods to not only be used inside a >> bzImage container, but also on a plain ELF binary. > > I don't really understand the problem. As long as we don't get yet another > pile of decompressors in the tree I don't really care either. Xen doesn't currently understand a compressed (gzip or other) ELF image, it can only deal with compressed payloads of bzImage containers. And no, it would just mean hooking up the existing decompressors via a second path. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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