Followup to: <200007141605.MAA16616@tsx-prime.MIT.EDU>
By author: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There is actually only one inflate.c at the moment in the Linux 2.2
> tree, although it's #include'd (I know, I know) in two places. One is
> 16-bit code used to decompress the kernel, and discarded once the kernel
> is loaded, and the other is used after the kernel has come up and is in
> 32-bit mode, to actually decompress the ramdisk. I set things up this
> way, when I was hacking on the compressed ramdisk code long ago.....
>
It isn't 16-bit code... it's 32-bit code (compiled with gcc!) run in
flat 32-bit mode with paging off.
-hpa
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