On 1/6/06, Deepak Joshi <deepak_cins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > while studing the linux boot procedure, i read that > "it is good to seperate decompression from bootstrap > of linux kernel." i am confused with this statement. > if we are using boot-loader for transfering the > control to starting location of kernel in ram why > can't we add the decompression routine or job to > boot-loader itself. > why kernel does that ? plz explain also how kernel > does the decompression of z or bzImage ( any links on > same plz) > Take a look at the gunzip() function in lib/inflate.c Also look at the same function in arch/xtensa/boot/lib/zmem.c arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware/common.c arch/ppc/boot/common/misc-common.c arch/powerpc/boot/main.c Also take a look at the places where gunzip() is called from. A quick 'grep' through the kernel source will easily find those spots for you. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
