Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > ---> 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
>
I don't know of any boxes that still won't boot bzImage... if there are
any, I'd like to know about them so we can get it fixed.
I would like to suggest making zImage officially deprecated (preferrably
including some echo statement in the Makefile), but not removed, in 2.4,
and then nuked completely in 2.5.
-hpa
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