Re: BootX + zvmlinux

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> >Is there a way to get BootX to work with compressed kernels?
> >
> >BTW, zvmlinux is from `make zImage` and in arch/ppc/boot
> 
> I've not looked at that bit of source for long, but it's possible that
> the special miboot image works with BootX. You can also try compressing a
> plain vmlinux with gzip -f9. The zImage won't work as it's embedded
> decompressor will not work when called from bootx.
> 
> ben.

Sorry, no good.  It wouldn't even show on the menu. :(

So, BootX doesn't "execute" the kernel, is that why the embedded decompressor
doesn't work?  Probably just copy the image to memory and a stack pointer?

Mike