linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: hollis@austin.ibm.com, Peter Bergner <bergner@brule.borg.umn.edu>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
	Debian PowerPC <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>,
	dan@debian.org
Subject: Re: yaboot & zImage's
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:05:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BABAB90.5AC649AD@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010921113329.C23691@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net


Tom Rini wrote:

> > I've booted a zImage.rs6k-chrp from yaboot 1.2.5.
>
> That almost sounds silly.

Actually, it's not very silly at all.  The zImage is significantly
smaller than a corresponding vmlinux, so it takes much less time
to load the image.

Also, many systems claim the lower memory where we want to load
the kernel.  The only option is the load it in some higher
memory hole, and then have it copy itself.  You may as well
uncompress at the same time....


	-- Dan

** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-21 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-20 15:09 [ANN] yaboot maintainer change Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-09-20 23:22 ` Ethan Benson
2001-09-21 16:49   ` Peter Bergner
2001-09-21 18:20     ` Tom Rini
2001-09-21 13:29       ` yaboot & zImage's hollis
2001-09-21 18:33         ` Tom Rini
2001-09-21 19:40           ` Peter Bergner
2001-09-21 21:05           ` Dan Malek [this message]
2001-09-21 22:44             ` Tom Rini
2001-09-21 23:22               ` Ethan Benson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3BABAB90.5AC649AD@mvista.com \
    --to=dan@mvista.com \
    --cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
    --cc=bergner@brule.borg.umn.edu \
    --cc=dan@debian.org \
    --cc=debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org \
    --cc=hollis@austin.ibm.com \
    --cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org \
    --cc=trini@kernel.crashing.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).