[coreboot] [PATCH] mkelfImage: set kernel_alignment so 2.6.31+work
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederm at xmission.com
Sat May 22 00:16:15 CEST 2010
ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
>> "Myles Watson" <mylesgw at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> At the moment I want to mandate a bzImage for x86, but I'm not certain
>> if that is practical the way we build images for coreboot.
>
> The last time I used it I used vmlinux, because we can lzma compress
> the whole elfimage when done merging in the other its (initrd etc.). I
> can't see any reason that your mandate would cause trouble, but it
> might slow things down a bit with two uncompress steps, one not
> needed.
There are also size issues. I think I need to ensure that linux builds
a bImage. So that you can have an uncompress bzImage. For this embedded
case.
Eric
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