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A kernel is the heart of almost every operating system. It is always loaded in memory at any time and deals with the hardware to provide an interface for the software. It also manages peripherals, memory, interrupts, and processes. Examples of widely used kernels include Windows NT and Linux.

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rminnich
rminnich commented Feb 2, 2022

Describe the bug
the bzimage package can't unpack kernels compress with xz. This is because when I wrote it I was not sure how to find
the compressed part and used a simple minded search.

To Reproduce
create a bzImage but enable XZ compression in the kernel (yep, it's still called a bzimage)
use the kexec command with debug and note you see this:
2022/02/02 21:13:15 Failed to unpa

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