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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Tom Gall <tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is bzImage container large enough?
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:49:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010902094911.A6041@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22500.999376181@ocs3.ocs-net> <3B914805.F9883E5E@vnet.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B914805.F9883E5E@vnet.ibm.com>

 
> The bug we fixed was that an uncompressed
> kernel could only be up to 4 meg in size, if it was larger, at
> uncompression time you'd just lose everything past the 4M mark.
> Todd Inglett raised the limit to 8 meg for us, and that's a mighty
> large penguin....

Computing the size at link time is neater and this is what he actually
does.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-01 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-01 16:28 is bzImage container large enough? Samium Gromoff
2001-09-01 20:29 ` Keith Owens
2001-09-01 20:41   ` Tom Gall
2001-09-01 23:49     ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2001-09-01 20:42   ` Mike Castle
2001-09-01 20:49     ` Keith Owens

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