Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:08:05 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? |
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Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> 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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