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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Joey Korkames <joey+lists@kidfixit.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: bzip2-compressed bzimage support?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:47:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m13a1x618g.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1264003210.167206.22847.1000@toolshiner.phx1.kidfixit.com> (Joey Korkames's message of "Wed\, 20 Jan 2010 09\:00\:10 -0700")

Joey Korkames <joey+lists@kidfixit.com> writes:


> Now, if it doesn't matter how the bzImage is compressed, then what are the
> recent lzma commits to kexec-tools.git for?

For arches other than x86 where the tradition is to put the decompressor
in the bootloader, instead of making the kernel a self extracting executable.

Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-23  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-20  4:40 bzip2-compressed bzimage support? Joey Korkames
2010-01-20  9:14 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-01-20 15:48   ` Joey Korkames
2010-01-20 16:00     ` Joey Korkames
2010-01-23  1:47       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-01-23  1:45     ` Eric W. Biederman

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