Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:09:58PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > I just reserved memory at non 2MB aligned location 65MB@15MB so that
> > > kernel is loaded at 16MB and other smaller segments below the compressed
> > > image, then I can successfully booted into the kdump kernel.
> > :)
> >
> > > So basically kexec on panic path seems to be clean except stomping issue.
> > > May be bzImage program header should reflect right "MemSize" which
> > > takes into account extra memory space calculations.
> > Yes.  That sounds like the right thing to do.  
> >
> > I remember trying to compute a good memsize when I created the bzImage
> > header but it is completely possible I missed some part of the
> > calculation or assumed that the kernels .bss section would always be
> > larger than what I needed for decompression.

Could someone please describe the intended semantics of this MemSize 
header, *and* its intended usage?

	-hpa
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