From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: Alon Altman <alon@vipe.technion.ac.il>
Cc: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>, Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@sch.bme.hu>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where does 'vmlinuz' come from?
Date: 12 Dec 2001 20:47:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d71jsxfc.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0112130202480.21624-100000@alon1.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: Alon Altman's message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:03:35 +0200 (IST)"
Alon Altman <alon@vipe.technion.ac.il> writes:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J Sloan wrote:
>
> > Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> >
> > > This is not a bugreport, but a simple question: :)
> > > where does the term vmlinuz come from?
> >
> > compressed vmlinux = vmlinux.z -> vmlinuz?
>
> Yes, but I think he wanted to know where 'vmlinux' came from... what does
> the "vm" stand for? Virtual Memory?
Yes. The kernel binary on ancient AT&T versions was called 'unix'.
When Berkeley wrote a new kernel with virtual memory, they called it
'vmunix'. So naturally the Linux kernel is 'vmlinux' and the
compressed version is 'vmlinuz' as above.
-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-12 23:24 Where does 'vmlinuz' come from? Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-12 23:48 ` J Sloan
2001-12-13 0:03 ` Alon Altman
2001-12-13 1:47 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2001-12-13 10:39 ` Peter Wächtler
2001-12-13 11:21 ` Luigi Genoni
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2001-12-13 14:40 Jesse Pollard
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