Followup to: <3947F97A.32615D81@adc.com>
By author: Darin Smith <darin_smith@adc.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm just curious what the plan here for other architectures is?
> I've seen the idea being tossed about of just having bzImage.
> Somebody wanted an example of a machine that does NOT boot a
> bzImage. Well here ya go:
>
> PPC doesn't even have a target called 'bzImage', and for good
> reason. It is not limited by the size of the image and doesn't have
> to juggle things all over memory. zImage works great though,
> especially for network booting where I don't want to be sucking down
> a big vmlinux. I don't mind the slight overhead of decompressing
> the image at the beginning. And zImage.initrd is even nicer for
> when I (or someone I'm helping) hose the world.
>
> However this is worked out, everybody please just keep in mind that
> Linux is no longer strictly x86, and big decisions based around x86
> oddities are going to affect lots of other folks.
>
No they won't. They won't affect non-x86 people *at all*, because
they won't be using them. It should have been clear from the context
(zImage vs bzImage) that this was an x86-platform discussion.
Insisting that it needs to be redundantly spelled out is just
political correctness.
This is downright silly, sorry.
-hpa
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