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

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri May 19 00:52:52 CEST 2006


Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> 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.

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




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