>
>>It would be convenient to be able to directly boot a bzImage,
>>but I guess elf is workable.
>
> Well that is directly booting vmlinux, and it doesn't lock you into
> booting the linux kernel which is very important to me.
>
Neither is bzImage... you can use bzImage format for other things. My
main worry about this is that it locks you into booting a single image
(as opposed to kernel+initramfs, the latter of which can be composed on
the fly if desirable), which is a huge step backwards IMNSHO.
-hpa
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