On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > so will cost every bzImage extra memory copy? that could be 18M or > even more big. Is it a huge deal for something that happens exactly once on boot? How does the time take compare with the time to do the decompression? 18M seems like an awfully large kernel image to me. My distro (Debian) kernel is more like 3M uncompressed. If someone was interested in fast booting presumably they would either build a kernel with exactly what they need. > wonder if can have one some other kind elf format, and offset load > address to avoid that mem copy. I guess you could reduce the load address by sizeof(headers) and add a dest == (output + phdr->p_offset) test before the copy. Another possibility, which is much more complex, is that the ELF parsing could be integrated into the decompressor such that the data is decompressed into the correct location directly. Ian. -- Ian Campbell People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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