Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] Add SUPPORT.md

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 02:54:11PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > +### Direct-boot kernel image format
> > > +
> > > +    Supported, x86: bzImage
> > > +    Supported, ARM32: zImage
> > > +    Supported, ARM64: Image [XXX - Not sure if this is correct]
> > 
> > On ARM64 it's called Image.gz.
> 
> Just curious, but where's the spec for this format? I cannot seem to
> find it anywhere.
> 
> Are those just ELF files compressed using different algorithms? If so
> it would be good to separate the decompression from the actual
> executable format that Xen supports.

No, it is not an ELF, it is almost the same as zImage:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt

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