Re: [PATCH] decompressors: fix typo "POWERPC"

From: Lasse Collin
Date: Wed Mar 13 2013 - 10:43:34 EST


On 2013-03-13 Paul Bolle wrote:
> Naive question: what is a preboot environment?

I'm not sure how official the term is. I have seen it mostly in
decompressors' files. It's the environment after a boot loader has
loaded the kernel but before the kernel has decompressed itself. On x86
the preboot environment has done its job once "Booting the kernel." has
been printed.

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