Re: [coreboot] CoreBoot and Payloads

[Piotr Brostovski]

Hi ron,

i didn't say it wouldn't be possible.
But - a working gPXE payload offer much more possibilities.

So i hope that it will be somehow possible to re)unite core- and etherboot(gPXE)

ron minnich schrieb:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Piotr Brostovski
>  wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > sadly the smallest 2.4.28 bzImage i could build is still around ~670kb big
> > ... too big for a 4MBit bios chip :/
>
> This is where you need better compression and a tiny kernel. Plus, the
> bzimage includes its own decompressor ... let coreboot decompress the
> payload.
>
> on olpc we always started from a vmlinux and lzma encoded it.
>
> ron