Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:16:17 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Booting uncompressed kernel image on i386? |
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Ondrej Zary wrote: > Nobody answered, time to look at the code :-) > The attached patch is a quick hack so "make" will create uncompressed > kernel that can be booted in regular way.
> --- linux-2.6.12-printserver/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c 2005-06-17 21:48:29.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6.12-pentium/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c 2005-07-01 23:34:55.000000000 +0200 > @@ -374,7 +374,15 @@ > > makecrc(); > putstr("Uncompressing Linux... ");
Would it not make sense to remove the above line? You're not actually uncompressing anything.
> - gunzip(); > + int i; > + for (i = 0; i < input_len / WSIZE; i++) { > + memcpy(window, input_data+i*WSIZE, WSIZE); > + outcnt = WSIZE; > + flush_window(); > + } > + memcpy(window, input_data+i*WSIZE, input_len % WSIZE); > + outcnt = input_len % WSIZE; > + flush_window(); > putstr("Ok, booting the kernel.\n"); > if (high_loaded) close_output_buffer_if_we_run_high(mv); > return high_loaded;
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