From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262369AbVGLE6f (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:58:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262363AbVGLE6d (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:58:33 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([209.128.68.125]:36813 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262367AbVGLE61 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:58:27 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: zImage on 2.6? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:58:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, which We do not fancy Message-ID: References: <20050503012951.GA10459@animx.eu.org> <20050502193503.20e6ac6e.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20050503104503.GA11123@animx.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1121144286 8709 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2005 04:58:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:58:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: By author: Krzysztof Halasa In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Wakko Warner 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