On 12 December 2014 at 13:52, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/12/14 14:20, Peter Maydell wrote: >> If we have a real bootloader in the UEFI firmware, why do we need >> to do decompression for it? We only do this in the builtin bootloader >> because QEMU is acting as the bootloader and has to support the >> feature itself. I would have thought that the UEFI builtin kernel >> booting support already supported decompressing the kernel... > > The "UEFI builtin kernel booting support" will qualify as "builtin" only > after my 2500 line patch series is merged in edk2.
I had in mind the support for UEFI loading kernels off hard disks, which presumably is already present. > Zlib decompression is not present in edk2 (it only has a TianoCore > variant of LZMA), and I didn't want to impede (in the community sense) > my edk2 patchset even more (ie. beyond its current size) by importing > libz too. Fair enough. This avoids odd inconsistency in compressed kernel support between the f/w and non f/w setups, anyway. If you fix the stray space then Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> thanks -- PMM
