From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:57:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466E983E.1070607@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466E39B4.1040400@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> These beasts are still alive and kicking. I boot a handful of
>> arm and ppc boards on a frequent basis that are zImage
>> only. The kicker is I don't have the bootloader source for
>> most of them, so changing to a different image format is
>> tough at best.
>>
>
> Sorry, the zImage/bzImage distinction is x86 only. Some other
> architectures call their output zImage, but it's a different format
> entirely.
>
> So I was referring specifically to x86.
Ah my mistake, I quickly scanned and didn't pick
up the x86 reference. Nothing to see here :)
Bruce
>
> -hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-11 23:52 Can we get rid of zImage this time? H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-12 2:20 ` Bruce Ashfield
2007-06-12 6:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-12 12:57 ` Bruce Ashfield [this message]
2007-06-12 21:59 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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