Re: It's time to get rid of zImage

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 20:28:41 EST


> ---> It's time to get rid of zImage once and for all. <---
>
> Why is that? Well, when Linux was originally created, DOS memory was
> considered a critical resource and very few computer manufacturers would
> have ever considered burning this resource for anything that wasn't

No thats 2.5

> So, given that, does anyone see any reason at all to support zImage
> kernels anymore?

For the odd boxes that apparently wont boot bzImage kernels. And its a change
we can do at 2.5.0 with less pain anyway

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