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Re: [Xen-devel] booting Xen from EFI
| To: | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] booting Xen from EFI |
| From: | Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:58:21 +0100 |
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| Delivery-date: | Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:00:19 -0700 |
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On 15/06/2011 16:22, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> 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. Ah yes I see. That makes sense. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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