On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > I've booted a zImage.rs6k-chrp from yaboot 1.2.5. > > > > That almost sounds silly. > > Actually, it's not very silly at all. The zImage is significantly > smaller than a corresponding vmlinux, so it takes much less time > to load the image.
Yes, but it almost sounds silly since yaboot is a full blow bootloader. Fer instance even, imho it'd make more sense for yaboot to take the objcopy'ed & gzip'ed vmlinux and throw that at KERNELADDR or so. > Also, many systems claim the lower memory where we want to load > the kernel. The only option is the load it in some higher > memory hole, and then have it copy itself. You may as well > uncompress at the same time.... Yes, but if we've already loaded yaboot, couldn't we do the same thing you're saying with a vmlinux.gz? -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
