RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] elilo compressed dom0 kernel support

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

Unless anyone objects...

Alex, please send me whatever "documentation" files belong
in the directory with xlilo and I will remove the existing
files and add yours.

We may be on a very short time fuse to get this in before 3.0.

Thanks,
Dan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yang, Fred [mailto:fred.yang@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:57 PM
> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); Williamson, Alex 
> (Linux Kernel Dev); xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Johnson, Brett E (Linux R&D - FTC)
> Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] elilo compressed dom0 kernel support
> 
> Akio has validated it for Xen, yes, we should update it.
> 
> We should also have corresponding pre-built binary, patch and build
> README updated
> 
> -Fred
> 
> Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:
> > Any opinions on whether we should replace
> > xen-ia64-unstable.hg/xen/arch/ia64/tools/xelilo/xlilo.efi
> > with Alex's version?
> > 
> > If yes, should we remove/replace the other elilo files
> > (patch and README) in that directory?
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> >> Of Williamson, Alex (Linux Kernel Dev)
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:00 PM
> >> To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Cc: Johnson, Brett E (Linux R&D - FTC)
> >> Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] elilo compressed dom0 kernel support
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >>    I've been hacking on elilo, massaging Fred's patch into
> >> the CVS code
> >> base and also adding support for compressed dom0 kernel 
> images.  GRUB
> >> uncompresses these images on x86 so it seemed a reasonable and
> >> convenient feature for elilo to have.  I was able to consolidate a
> >> couple files from the architecture specific directories 
> into the main
> >> elilo directory, good for the code, bad for the size of the
> >> diff (150k).
> >> I've put the patch vs CVS and a prebuilt elilo/ia64 binary here:
> >> 
> >> http://free.linux.hp.com/~awilliam/elilo/
> >> 
> >> Please test and let me know if you find any problems.  I'll refine
> >> the patch a bit and work with Brett to get this committed 
> to CVS and
> >> get a new release out.  Thanks, 
> >> 
> >>    Alex
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source
> >> Lab 
> >> 
> >> 
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