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From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] decompressors: fix typo "POWERPC"
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:43:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130313164302.61c953cd@tukaani.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363176339.1335.1.camel@x61.thuisdomein>

On 2013-03-13 Paul Bolle wrote:
> Naive question: what is a preboot environment?

I'm not sure how official the term is. I have seen it mostly in
decompressors' files. It's the environment after a boot loader has
loaded the kernel but before the kernel has decompressed itself. On x86
the preboot environment has done its job once "Booting the kernel." has
been printed.

-- 
Lasse Collin  |  IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode

      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-13 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-11 23:29 [PATCH] decompressors: fix typo "POWERPC" Paul Bolle
2013-03-13 11:30 ` Lasse Collin
2013-03-13 12:05   ` Paul Bolle
2013-03-13 14:43     ` Lasse Collin [this message]

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