On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:

Tom Rini wrote:

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I've booted a zImage.rs6k-chrp from yaboot 1.2.5.

That almost sounds silly.

Actually, it's not very silly at all.  The zImage is significantly
smaller than a corresponding vmlinux, so it takes much less time
to load the image.

Yes, but it almost sounds silly since yaboot is a full blow bootloader.
Fer instance even, imho it'd make more sense for yaboot to take the
objcopy'ed & gzip'ed vmlinux and throw that at KERNELADDR or so.

Also, many systems claim the lower memory where we want to load
the kernel.  The only option is the load it in some higher
memory hole, and then have it copy itself.  You may as well
uncompress at the same time....

Yes, but if we've already loaded yaboot, couldn't we do the same thing
you're saying with a vmlinux.gz?

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