Re: [PATCH] kbuild: correct size calculation of bzImgae / fix x86boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/21/2009 10:28 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/20/2009 06:11 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>
>> The whole business using shell scripts to append the size seems broken.
>> How about moving this functionality to mkpiggy where we are
>> less shell script dependent.
>>
> 
> Seems a helluva lot saner to me...
> 
>> It includes the length also in the gzip case - I dunno if that matters.
>> Also I dunno if ".long" is the same on 32 and 64 bit.
> 
> Well, gzip already has a length at the end... shouldn't really hurt
> anything, I suppose.  ".long" is 32 bits on both 32 and 64 bits.
> 

Note, though: mkpiggy is x86, but this also affects other
architectures... so probably additional changes are needed.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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