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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>,
	Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, heukelum@fastmail.fm
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loader decompressor -- payload_length
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:57:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FE9B57.1040203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440804101555w760f7c7fm212cbcff62946030@mail.gmail.com>

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> output_len in vmlinux.scr?
> 
> bootloader will try to get that ?
> 

No, the last four bytes of a gzip image is the uncompressed length.

A bootloader which wants the uncompressed ELF file length (as opposed to 
the individual ELF segments) can get it that way.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10 20:34 [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loader decompressor -- payload_length Yinghai Lu
2008-04-10 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-10 21:15   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-10 21:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-10 21:48       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-10 22:14         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-10 22:55           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-10 22:57             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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