From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751330AbWFYRUI (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:20:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751331AbWFYRUI (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:20:08 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:10440 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751330AbWFYRUG (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:20:06 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Is the x86-64 kernel size limit real? Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, with we do not fancy Message-ID: References: <20060622204627.GA47994@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1151255992 24985 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2006 17:19:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:19:52 +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: Andi Kleen In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Olivier Galibert 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