Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:43:02 +0200 | From | Lasse Collin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] decompressors: fix typo "POWERPC" |
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On 2013-03-13 Paul Bolle wrote: > Naive question: what is a preboot environment?
I'm not sure how official the term is. I have seen it mostly in decompressors' files. It's the environment after a boot loader has loaded the kernel but before the kernel has decompressed itself. On x86 the preboot environment has done its job once "Booting the kernel." has been printed.
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