[syslinux] Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO

Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 23:25:08 PDT 2015


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:39 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 08:41 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>
>> CRC+length (in case of gzip) are located immediately after compressed
>> stream. After stream is decompressed you get location where it ends and
>> automatically where length is located.
>>
>
> I know.  One could decompress it twice,

Cannot you incrementally reallocate uncompressed buffer?

> but why?
>
>         -hpa
>


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