linux-kernel - Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?

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Message-ID: <86802c440902272354s147aa88x2be99b48f2097b67@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:54:57 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
> [Yinghai Lu - Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:39:06PM -0800]
> | wonder if boot loader check uncompress size aka vmlinux size in bzImage
> | before it find one good position for bzImage...?
> |
> | YH
> |
>
> At least for x86-64 in grub-1.96 I didn't find such a check.
> Btw, but why should it care? Or you mean something else?

thinking about Jeremy's brk patches that may use ram after _end blindly...

YH
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