From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: Max Inux <maxinux@bigfoot.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:03:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A0CB6FD.D4CCE09F@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011101822120.10847-100000@shambat>
Max Inux wrote:
>
> On 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Different compile options?
> >
> >Why is a 900K kernel unusable?
> >
> > -hpa
>
> My guess would be it not actually bzipping the kernel. Id run make
> bzImage again and making sure it is bzipping it.
>
gzip, actually. I can verify here "make bzImage" does the expected thing
and it looks normal-sized to me.
>
> On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting. Though I thought
> it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine.
>
No, there isn't. There used to be, but it has been fixed.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-11 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-10 23:37 bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 Robert Lynch
2000-11-10 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 2:25 ` Max Inux
2000-11-11 3:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2000-11-11 5:28 ` Chmouel Boudjnah
2000-11-11 11:27 ` Max Inux
2000-11-11 11:28 ` Jan Niehusmann
2000-11-11 11:38 ` bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2, I stand corrected Max Inux
2000-11-11 13:49 ` bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 James A. Sutherland
2000-11-11 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 11:36 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 11:38 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 11:52 ` Max Inux
2000-11-11 14:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 14:51 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 16:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 16:46 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-11 18:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 19:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 11:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-12 13:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 15:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-12 15:44 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-12 16:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-12 18:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-16 17:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 22:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-12 19:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 23:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 20:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 16:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 16:05 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2000-11-11 17:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-14 14:02 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-11 5:47 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-11 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-11 15:43 ` Thomas Köhler
2000-11-11 18:03 ` Robert Lynch
2000-11-11 18:30 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-11 18:57 ` Robert Lynch
2000-11-11 20:35 ` Andi Kleen
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