kernel presentation at ILUG on Sat.
James Colannino
email2jamez at covad.net
Mon May 5 16:10:38 CDT 2003
I live in another part of the United States and so I wouldn't have been
able to be there, but I have a couple questions about the kernel that I
have been itching to figure out and was wondering if anyone could help
enlighten me :)
First, how exactly does the kernel uncompress itself? Are there a few
lines of code at the beginning of the binary that instruct the computer
on how to uncompress the rest? What program handles the compression
during compilation and what sort of algorithm is used? Gzip maybe?
lol I'm hoping SOMEONE can help me out with this. I haven't found much
googling, partly because I'm not sure exactly under what terms I should
search for, and also, I've posted similiar questions to a couple other
user groups in my area, and no one seems to have an answer.
James
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