<div dir="ltr">Thanks. Sorry for forking the thread, just wanted to put up why this weird ask would be there.<div><br></div><div>Practically speaking, it's not enough to worry about yet, just wondering if there happened to already be an answer for this.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:47 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 Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:29:12PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:15 PM Geert Stappers <<a href="mailto:stappers@stappers.nl" target="_blank">stappers@stappers.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
> > 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<br>
> > > I'm missing to acheive the same end in ipxe?<br>
> ><br>
> > Please elaborate what you want to achieve.<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> At least in the ARM64 distribution that I was dealing with, the kernel is<br>
> gzipped. So doing an exec of an ARM64 as an EFI stub didn't work unless I<br>
> gunzipped the kernel ahead of time.<br>
> <br>
> Contrast with x86_64, where the compressed kernel has EFI stub intact.<br>
> <br>
> I'm presuming grub transparently gunzips the arm kernels and that's why<br>
> they don't bother making the compressed kernel efi stub...<br>
> <br>
> Someone can let me know if I'm missing something, but gunzip leads to efi<br>
> stub working with ipxe, but obviously the download size impact is not<br>
> desirable...<br>
> <br>
<br>
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:32:58PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:<br>
> On 18/06/18 21:01, Jarrod Johnson wrote:<br>
> > So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax<br>
> > I'm missing to acheive the same end in ipxe?<br>
><br>
> There's no support for gunzipping a downloaded image, sorry. We do have<br>
> code for the underlying decompression algorithm (used in e.g. PNG image<br>
> support), so a large part of the potential coding work is already done.<br>
><br>
> Michael<br>
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Groeten<br>
Geert Stappers<br>
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