From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:08:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A8F0E5.10307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440902272354s147aa88x2be99b48f2097b67@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-28 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-28 1:51 [PATCH] Simple brk allocator for very early allocations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: add brk allocation for very, " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: reserve brk earlier Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 1:51 ` [PATCH] x86-32: use brk segment for allocating initial kernel pagetable Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 7:02 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28 7:05 ` J Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 7:15 ` J Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28 7:39 ` does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28 7:47 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-28 7:54 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28 8:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-02-28 20:42 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28 7:52 ` brk patches Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28 8:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-28 8:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 20:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 23:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02 1:02 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-02 1:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02 1:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02 1:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02 1:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02 2:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 1:23 ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 8:31 ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 9:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-01 17:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 18:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 23:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02 0:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09 8:15 ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into .bss -v4 Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09 15:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-09 17:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 1:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-09 7:45 ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28 8:07 ` does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-28 8:17 ` J Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 7:30 ` J Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28 1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: use brk allocation for DMI Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: leave _brk_end defined Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 5:23 ` [PATCH] Simple brk allocator for very early allocations Andrew Morton
2009-02-28 6:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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