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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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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