Re: Is the x86-64 kernel size limit real?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
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> Olivier Galibert wrote:
> 
>>
>> which shows two things:
>> 1- a8f5034540195307362d071a8b387226b410469f should have a x86-64 version
>> 2- the limit looks entirely artificial
>>
>> So, is removing the limit prone to bite me?
>>
>>   OG.
> 
> The build system merely tries to warn you it's not going to fit on a 
> floppy disk. "bzImage" means "Big zImage", not "bz2-compressed Image", 
> so unless you're building a floppy disk, don't use zImage.
> 

He's talking about the bzImage limit, not the zImage limit.  The bzImage limit in x86-64 
is real (in the sense it exists) but incorrect (in the sense that it has the wrong value); 
see my other post.

	-hpa