[LinuxBIOS] [FEATURE] payload compression

Lu, Yinghai yinghai.lu at amd.com
Wed May 3 23:34:53 CEST 2006


The Etherboot 5.4 later has different size in elf prefix... to real file
size.

So we need to align rom_end to 16 bytes or use dd to make payload to 16
bytes align before nrv2b payload.nrv2b...

Which one is good?

YH



-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan at coresystems.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:17 PM
To: Lu, Yinghai
Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [FEATURE] payload compression

* Lu, Yinghai <yinghai.lu at amd.com> [060503 20:40]:
> Please check the attached zrom fix up.
> 1. copy_and_run.c double skip length
> 2. merge zrom_stream.c into rom_stream.c
> 3. ram position check to skip 0xa0000, and 0xf0000...

Makes perfect sense!

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