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Message-ID: <4B2FC7E6.5030508@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:09:26 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> CC: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Michael Guntsche <mike@...loops.com>, Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: correct size calculation of bzImgae / fix x86 boot On 12/21/2009 10:28 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/20/2009 06:11 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >> The whole business using shell scripts to append the size seems broken. >> How about moving this functionality to mkpiggy where we are >> less shell script dependent. >> > > Seems a helluva lot saner to me... > >> It includes the length also in the gzip case - I dunno if that matters. >> Also I dunno if ".long" is the same on 32 and 64 bit. > > Well, gzip already has a length at the end... shouldn't really hurt > anything, I suppose. ".long" is 32 bits on both 32 and 64 bits. > Note, though: mkpiggy is x86, but this also affects other architectures... so probably additional changes are needed. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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