From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>, syslinux@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:20:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <553EB638.4060704@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA91j0Vv5ntaMhTQ5=6Fr4F=3TiqSt+_cuv_aNm7Kg2A7pfmcQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/23/2015 11:25 PM, Andrei Borzenkov via Syslinux wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:39 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 04/23/2015 08:41 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>>
>>> CRC+length (in case of gzip) are located immediately after compressed
>>> stream. After stream is decompressed you get location where it ends and
>>> automatically where length is located.
>>>
>>
>> I know. One could decompress it twice,
>
> Cannot you incrementally reallocate uncompressed buffer?
>
That is very hard because of how memory is managed in MEMDISK.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-27 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-23 14:23 Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO David Shaw
2015-04-23 16:59 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-23 22:17 ` [syslinux] " H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 3:14 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-24 3:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 3:41 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-24 4:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-24 6:25 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-27 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-04-29 13:55 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-29 16:28 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-29 17:45 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-29 18:35 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-30 3:36 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-29 18:42 ` David Shaw
2015-05-07 14:23 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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