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
prev parent 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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