Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Feb 28 2009 - 03:11:27 EST

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Yinghai Lu wrote:

wonder if boot loader check uncompress size aka vmlinux size in bzImage
before it find one good position for bzImage...?

Most boot loaders load the bzImage to a single standard address, 0x100000.

-hpa
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