Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache? | Date | 14 Jul 2000 11:50:45 -0700 |
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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.
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