Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 22:37 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I'm not going to worry about going farther until the patches in flight
> > settle down a little bit, but this looks promising.
> >   
> 
> Is there any value in adding an "early-putchar" function pointer into
> the structure somehow?  I could easily arrange for the domain builder to
> put a bit of code into the domain so that the early boot code can emit
> something.

Well there aren't that many instructions between startup_32 and
lguest_init at the moment, but I guess if we end up going through
bzImage decompression it makes more sense...

Rusty.


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