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SubjectRe: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?
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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