Re: [PATCH] kbuild: correct size calculation of bzImgae / fix x86boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/20/2009 06:11 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> The whole business using shell scripts to append the size seems broken.
> How about moving this functionality to mkpiggy where we are
> less shell script dependent.
> 

Seems a helluva lot saner to me...

> It includes the length also in the gzip case - I dunno if that matters.
> Also I dunno if ".long" is the same on 32 and 64 bit.

Well, gzip already has a length at the end... shouldn't really hurt
anything, I suppose.  ".long" is 32 bits on both 32 and 64 bits.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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