Re: [PATCH v5 05/21] x86, boot: Calculate decompression size during boot not build

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Apr 15 2016 - 04:12:36 EST



* Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c.

What is the high level meaning of z_extract_offset? I cannot tell without reading
the code - and the point of changelogs is for them to be readable without having
to read the code.

The rest of the changelog is pretty good.

Thanks,

Ingo