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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: initrd change breaks binary compatibility
| To: | John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: initrd change breaks binary compatibility |
| From: | Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:26:21 +0100 |
| Cc: | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On 10/10/06 10:34 pm, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I suspect that we're actually broken here. I think the way we determine >>> the uncompressed size (by reading the last couple bytes) is not >>> something that can, in generally, be safely relied upon. >>> >>> We could work around this by decompressing the initrd and dynamically >>> expanding the buffer we're decompressing to as needed. >> >> Yes, we'll do this after 3.0.3-0. It's just a little bit too tricky to slip >> in for the release. > > Does this mean the current change will be reverted? Yes, that's now done. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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