[coreboot] CoreBoot and Payloads

[ron minnich]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Piotr Brostovski
<p.brostovski at levigo.de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> sadly the smallest 2.4.28 bzImage i could build is still around ~670kb big
> ... too big for a 4MBit bios chip :/
>

This is where you need better compression and a tiny kernel. Plus, the
bzimage includes its own decompressor ... let coreboot decompress the
payload.

on olpc we always started from a vmlinux and lzma encoded it.

ron