[syslinux] pxelinux bug's

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jun 20 22:48:27 PDT 2007


Iouri Kharon wrote:
>    Hi H.!
> 
> Thursday, June 21, 2007, you wrote:
> 
> 
> HPA> Iouri Kharon wrote:
>>> Why align to page (not dword)? If see in linux/init/initramfs.c:unpack_to_rootfs()
> 
> HPA> Because the beginning has to be page-aligned, but the core loader
> Beginning - yes. But everyone (image)?
> 
> HPA> doesn't know a priori what the alignment will be.  The C code is a lot
> HPA> smarter.
> Gm. Load with aling(dword), and after loading last (first im memory) disk,
> memcpy all images if neded :).
> 

There is no reason to do the extra copy, though, so we might as well not.

Anyway, does 3.52-pre1 work for you?

	-hpa




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