Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Feb 28 2009 - 03:11:59 EST


Yinghai Lu wrote:
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...


We already do that. Jeremy's brk patches just formalizes it.

-hpa

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