[PATCH] Clean up ARM compressed loader

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Feb 24 18:42:15 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:34:49PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> What about simply not compiling the decompressor with -fPIC when using 
> ZBOOT_ROM=y?  That would certainly solve the problem with the only 
> restriction that such kernel images won't be bootable from RAM which is 
> probably an acceptable compromize.

Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the stack-bashing with ZBOOT_ROM=n.

I'm afraid that the commit adding LZO support is going to have to be
reverted until a better solution to this is found.



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