Re: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895

[Lu, Yinghai]

So the vmlinux+initrd.gz--> elf, and nrv2b to be the payload...

What is size of final elf?
1. bzImage+initrd.gz
2. vmlinux+initrd.gz --> nrv2b

I wonder if 2 would be bigger than 1.

YH

[LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895

[Ronald G Minnich]

Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> So the vmlinux+initrd.gz--> elf, and nrv2b to be the payload...
>
> What is size of final elf?
> bzImage+initrd.gz
> vmlinux+initrd.gz --> nrv2b
>
> I wonder if 2 would be bigger than 1.

mkelfImage has a number of additional components, actually a fair bit of 
code. So far, (2) is winning -- put the cmdline (linux params) in an elf 
segment @0x90000, vmlinux and initrd in other segments.

Actually, in V1, I had a gunzip step built into linuxbios. I still think 
that was not a bad deal.

ron

[LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ronald G Minnich  [060519 00:52]:
> mkelfImage has a number of additional components, actually a fair bit of 
> code. So far, (2) is winning -- put the cmdline (linux params) in an elf 
> segment @0x90000, vmlinux and initrd in other segments.
>
> Actually, in V1, I had a gunzip step built into linuxbios. I still think 
> that was not a bad deal.

Can you elaborate? And why did it go?

Stefan