Andi Kleen <[email protected]> writes:
> "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> When loaded with a normal bootloader the decompressor will decompress
>> the kernel to 2M and it will run there. This both ensures the
>> relocation code is always working, and makes it easier to use 2M
>> pages for the kernel and the cpu.
>
> It would have been nicer if you had moved the uncompressor to be 64bit
> first like it was planned for a long time.
Sorry. I wasn't really in those discussions.
I guess I could take this in some slightly smaller steps.
But this does wind up with decompressor being 64bit code.
Eric
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