Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loaderdecompressor -- payload_length

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Apr 10 2008 - 18:58:18 EST


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
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