From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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 11:24:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311102439.GA32512@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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?
Havent seen any zImage bugreport for years, so go for it. In the
unlikely case of someone still relying on it and having a good
use case we'll get a bugreport and can consider putting it back
in.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 10:24 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 [this message]
2009-03-11 11:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-11 14:14 ` Woody Suwalski
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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