From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zImage on 2.6?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:58:06 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <daviku$8g4$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3k6mg5fly.fsf@defiant.localdomain
Followup to: <m3k6mg5fly.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
By author: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> writes:
>
> > x86. Does zImage work on other arches? (I've only ever dealt with alpha
> > and sparc other than x86)
>
> Sure, ARM for example. 2 MB is not a problem.
That's a completely different meaning of zImage then. The x86 boot
protocol (also used on x86-64) only allows 504K for zImage.
For x86, zImage is so dead it's not even funny. I tried to remove it
a few years ago but people complained.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-12 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-03 1:29 zImage on 2.6? Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 2:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-03 10:45 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 14:26 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-03 16:33 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 16:59 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-03 22:19 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 22:27 ` segin
2005-05-03 22:31 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 23:15 ` segin
2005-05-04 0:28 ` shogunx
2005-05-04 1:29 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-12 4:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-03 22:37 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-03 23:05 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 23:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-07-12 4:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-03 18:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-07-12 4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-05-03 16:06 ` Rick Warner
2005-05-03 16:40 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 18:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-03 18:44 ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-03 22:20 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-03 21:42 ` Rick Warner
2005-05-03 22:23 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-12 5:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-04 13:50 ` Wakko Warner
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