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    parisc: Include compressed vmlinux file in vmlinuz boot kernel · 34c201ae
    Helge Deller authored
    Change the parisc vmlinuz boot code to include and process the real
    compressed vmlinux.gz ELF file instead of a compressed memory dump.
    This brings parisc in sync on how it's done on x86_64.
    
    The benefit of this change is that, e.g. for debugging purposes, one can
    then extract the vmlinux file out of the vmlinuz which was booted which
    wasn't possible before. This can be archieved with the existing
    scripts/extract-vmlinux script, which just needs a small tweak to prefer
    to extract a compressed file before trying the existing given binary.
    
    The downside of this approach is that due to the extra round of
    decompression/ELF processing we need more physical memory installed to
    be able to boot a kernel.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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