From: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support?
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:14:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B7C729.5080301@xandros.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm thinking again about removing zImage support. An "allnoconfig"
> kernel (with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y to expose additional knobs, and
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y so it can do anything at all) is currently 487K on
> i386 -- very close to the upper limit of 512K for zImage.
>
> Are there *any* residual users of this, or should I just push a patch to
> remove it once and for all?
>
> -hpa
>
>
If x86-only - OK.
However zImage is the format used on ARM quite often... So any "kernel complexity removal" need to happen only on x86 side.
Woody
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Woody Suwalski, Xandros, Ottawa, Canada, 1-613-842-3498 x414
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 0:20 x86: removing zImage support? H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 1:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-11 1:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 10:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-11 11:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-11 14:14 ` Woody Suwalski [this message]
2009-03-11 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 17:39 ` Ian Campbell
2009-03-11 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 18:06 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86: remove zImage support H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-12 17:45 ` Paul Bolle
2009-03-12 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-12 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-12 19:57 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86: remove additional vestiges of the zImage/bzImage split H. Peter Anvin
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