yaboot & zImage's

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:29:04PM +0000, hollis at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:20:47AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:49:51AM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > >
> > > Just a little nit, but some people might be interested, as part
> > > of the "Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner", we also
> > > added support for booting compressed images (ie, zImage).
> >
> > As in objcopy ... && gzip -9 or the 'zImage' target?  They aren't exactly
> > the same..
>
> I've booted a zImage.rs6k-chrp from yaboot 1.2.5.

That almost sounds silly.  I guess I should try and find the code, but I'm
guessing it copies from an FS into memory and then runs that?  yaboot doesn't
do compression yet, yes?

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