From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759457AbXFZUT0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:19:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758868AbXFZUTK (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:19:10 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:60239 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759837AbXFZUTI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:19:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:18:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , v12n , lkml , Xen-Devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] define ELF notes for adding to a boot image Message-Id: <20070626131830.9a4d4ae6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4672C0FF.9080209@goop.org> References: <20070615004818.424726597@goop.org> <20070615005012.882738673@goop.org> <4672BC5B.1040502@zytor.com> <4672C0FF.9080209@goop.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:40:31 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > >> +#define EIN_PROGRAM_CHECKSUM 3 /* ip style checksum of the memory image. */ > >> > > > > Why on earth use one of the weakest verificants in common use? > > I don't know. I copied this stuff from the original relocatable kernel > patches; I think this is from Vivek. Eric, Vivek: is there a specific > use for these notes? > ping? Jeremy, I'll duck these patches for now, sorry. Mainly on i-already-have-enough-x86-stuff grounds. There's a bit of overlap between this work and git-newsetup, but nothing particularly serious-looking.