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vmlinuz support #1

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rsaxvc opened this issue Sep 12, 2020 · 2 comments
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vmlinuz support #1

rsaxvc opened this issue Sep 12, 2020 · 2 comments
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rsaxvc commented Sep 12, 2020

Might be nice to decompress kernels on the fly.
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rsaxvc commented Sep 12, 2020

gzipping Debian 10's kernel reduces footprint to around 30%.

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rsaxvc commented Sep 13, 2020

It looks like this is handled outside of the bootloader by loading the vmlinuz then jumping to it and it extracts itself. Not sure if anything is required to support this on the yaboot-end.

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