<div dir="ltr">At least in the ARM64 distribution that I was dealing with, the kernel is gzipped. So doing an exec of an ARM64 as an EFI stub didn't work unless I gunzipped the kernel ahead of time.<div><br></div><div>Contrast with x86_64, where the compressed kernel has EFI stub intact.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm presuming grub transparently gunzips the arm kernels and that's why they don't bother making the compressed kernel efi stub...</div><div><br></div><div>Someone can let me know if I'm missing something, but gunzip leads to efi stub working with ipxe, but obviously the download size impact is not desirable...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:15 PM Geert Stappers <<a href="mailto:stappers@stappers.nl">stappers@stappers.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:01:44PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote:<br>
> So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax I'm<br>
> missing to acheive the same end in ipxe?<br>
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Please elaborate what you want to achieve.<br>
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Groeten<br>
Geert Stappers<br>
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