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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Add support for uncompressed kernel images
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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