Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> 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...

YH
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