Re: [Etherboot-developers] Seperating out the x86 BIOS calls...

[<ke...@us...>]

>Regarding the loader, I am starting to seperate out the decompressor
>from the rest of the code, so I can use the decompressor when booted
>under LinuxBIOS.  Saving 6 out of 17k is pretty significant in my
>book.  What I am aiming at is an inplace (or at least in bss)
>decompressor that runs in 32bit mode.

There are some limits of the de/compression code, Markus can explain
those.

>If that works we can permanently move the decompressor out of loader.S
>and possibly make that file readable, instead of #ifdef spagetti.

Bearing in mind that the decompressor isn't really part of the running
Etherboot image. It's the first part of the ROM image and the Etherboot
image is appended onto that. When the ROM gains control, it does a
"self-extract" so to speak.