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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index fcdc62b3c3d..9ac70ffe2b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -542,7 +542,10 @@ Protocol: 2.08+ The payload may be compressed. The format of both the compressed and uncompressed data should be determined using the standard magic - numbers. Currently only gzip compressed ELF is used. + numbers. The currently supported compression formats are gzip + (magic numbers 1F 8B or 1F 9E), bzip2 (magic number 42 5A) and LZMA + (magic number 5D 00). The uncompressed payload is currently always ELF + (magic number 7F 45 4C 46). Field name: payload_length Type: read |