Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:06:01 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Add support for uncompressed kernel images |
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On 11/15/2013 01:49 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote: > > Actually, the x86 architecture already contains a basic implementation > of memcpy in its self-decompressor. Correct me if I'm wrong but I guess > memmove is not required since I don't expect the output of a generic > decompression function to overlap with its input. > > We can simply use that function if we agree that > . either nozip is x86 specific > . or every architecture using this code must bring along its own memcpy > implementation in its self-decompressor. > > Do you think that would be OK? >
I think all of them have memcpy().
-hpa
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