On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:37:05PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > i highly doubt) i don't know what boot loader embedded devices are > > using but im sure its different then quik/yaboot > > I see no reason why they wouldn't work with quick/yaboot since the > decompressor is embedded in the boot image as well. Hence the boot loader is > not aware that there's any compression.
iirc Ben has told me that the decompressor in the kernel is broken on Powermacs. > BTW, is there no `decompressing kernel image' output on PowerMac? It's > possible > that it's not visible on PowerMacs with inferior OF and only serial OF > support. > And how large is your boot image? Is it smaller than `vmlinux'? the next time i have to reboot i will try a zImage compressed kernel with yaboot just to see, i will also try a plain gzipped kernel (a la sparc) to see if yaboot inherited the ability to degzip kernels itself from its great grandfather SILO. at the moment i have a 25 day uptime, and i don't think the compressed kernel question is interesting enough to ruin it ;-) also in regards to debian, kernel-package does not pack the compressed images, only the vmlinux and vmlinux.coff. so with quik on debian there will never be a vmlinuz to boot. (unless you make one yourself) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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