On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:29:12PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:15 PM Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:01:44PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > > So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax > > > I'm missing to acheive the same end in ipxe? > > > > Please elaborate what you want to achieve. > > > > At least in the ARM64 distribution that I was dealing with, the kernel is > gzipped. So doing an exec of an ARM64 as an EFI stub didn't work unless I > gunzipped the kernel ahead of time. > > Contrast with x86_64, where the compressed kernel has EFI stub intact. > > I'm presuming grub transparently gunzips the arm kernels and that's why > they don't bother making the compressed kernel efi stub... > > Someone can let me know if I'm missing something, but gunzip leads to efi > stub working with ipxe, but obviously the download size impact is not > desirable... >
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:32:58PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote: > On 18/06/18 21:01, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax > > I'm missing to acheive the same end in ipxe? > > There's no support for gunzipping a downloaded image, sorry. We do have > code for the underlying decompression algorithm (used in e.g. PNG image > support), so a large part of the potential coding work is already done. > > Michael Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel