Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Jun 10 2011 - 20:19:55 EST


On 06/10/2011 05:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 04:55 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> No, it should be, because the boot loader can control the decompress
>>> position to avoid the problems.
>>
>> bootloader could find out decompressed kernel size?
>>
>
> Yes, it's the init_size field in the header.

good, with relocatable_kernel, kernel_alignment, and init_size in header, bootloader could find right position for kernel.

Yinghai
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