"James H. Cloos Jr." wrote:
>
> >>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> hpa> ---> It's time to get rid of zImage once and for all. <---
>
> Cool. But so would be getting rid of bzImage in the general case.
> Using a two-stage loader (unless it can be done in 1) to boot a
> vmlinux.gz file from a filesystem would be way cool.
>
> Just like on (pretty much all of?) the other architectures.
>
> Yes?
>
I have been working on that... however, that's a much bigger step, and I
don't think it's time for that yet.
vmlinux (.gz) in the current form would not be appropriate for booting
on i386 though. The kernel needs a "setup" that runs in 16-bit real
mode.
-hpa
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