Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:42:50 -0800 | Subject | Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
| |
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:08 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > 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. >
No, after we extend reserve_early from 64bit to 32bit, we don't use RAM blindly in early stage.
YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |