From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is the x86-64 kernel size limit real?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7mgjo$oco$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p73hd2cnik6.fsf@verdi.suse.de
Followup to: <p73hd2cnik6.fsf@verdi.suse.de>
By author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > I get bitched at by the build process because the kernel I get is
> > around 4.5Mb compressed. i386 does not have that limitation.
> > Interestingly, a diff between the two build.c gives:
>
> A patch to fix it is already queued for 2.6.18
>
> Also long term it might be completely dropped when the uncompressor
> moves to long mode.
>
It can be completely dropped now (and the directories unified); the
size limitation on the uncompressed size can be enforced in the linker
script.
The uncompressor only needs to be in long mode to support > 4 GB.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-25 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 20:46 Is the x86-64 kernel size limit real? Olivier Galibert
2006-06-22 21:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-22 22:00 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-06-22 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-22 23:02 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-06-23 0:27 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2006-06-22 21:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-22 21:52 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-06-23 1:18 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2006-06-23 12:49 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-25 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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