Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:57:27 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: increase stack size for kernel boot loader decompressor -- payload_length |
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Yinghai Lu wrote: > > output_len in vmlinux.scr? > > bootloader will try to get that ? >
No, the last four bytes of a gzip image is the uncompressed length.
A bootloader which wants the uncompressed ELF file length (as opposed to the individual ELF segments) can get it that way.
-hpa
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