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From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...>, Mike Travis <travis@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <heukelum@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loader decompressor -- payload_length
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 6:57 pm

Yinghai Lu wrote:

No, the last four bytes of a gzip image is the uncompressed length.

A bootloader which wants the uncompressed ELF file length (as opposed to 
the individual ELF segments) can get it that way.

	-hpa
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., Yinghai Lu, (Thu Apr 10, 4:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Apr 10, 4:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., Yinghai Lu, (Thu Apr 10, 5:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Apr 10, 5:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., Yinghai Lu, (Thu Apr 10, 5:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Apr 10, 6:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., Yinghai Lu, (Thu Apr 10, 6:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot lo..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Apr 10, 6:57 pm)