Re: [Xen-devel] Re: initrd change breaks binary compatibility

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/10/06 10:34 pm, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> I suspect that we're actually broken here.  I think the way we determine
>>> the uncompressed size (by reading the last couple bytes) is not
>>> something that can, in generally, be safely relied upon.
>>> 
>>> We could work around this by decompressing the initrd and dynamically
>>> expanding the buffer we're decompressing to as needed.
>> 
>> Yes, we'll do this after 3.0.3-0. It's just a little bit too tricky to slip
>> in for the release.
> 
> Does this mean the current change will be reverted?

Yes, that's now done.

 -- Keir



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