Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [Yinghai Lu - Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:39:06PM -0800]
> > | wonder if boot loader check uncompress size aka vmlinux size in bzImage
> > | before it find one good position for bzImage...?
> > |
> > | YH
> > |
> >
> > At least for x86-64 in grub-1.96 I didn't find such a check.
> > Btw, but why should it care? Or you mean something else?
>
> thinking about Jeremy's brk patches that may use ram after _end blindly...

We already do that.  Jeremy's brk patches just formalizes it.

	-hpa

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