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To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
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Olivier Galibert wrote:

> 
> which shows two things:
> 1- a8f5034540195307362d071a8b387226b410469f should have a x86-64 version
> 2- the limit looks entirely artificial
> 
> So, is removing the limit prone to bite me?
> 
>   OG.

The build system merely tries to warn you it's not going to fit on a 
floppy disk. "bzImage" means "Big zImage", not "bz2-compressed Image", 
so unless you're building a floppy disk, don't use zImage.