Re: It's time to get rid of zImage

From: James H. Cloos Jr. (cloos@jhcloos.com)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 15:45:28 EST

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>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:

hpa> vmlinux (.gz) in the current form would not be appropriate for
hpa> booting on i386 though.

hpa> The kernel needs a "setup" that runs in 16-bit real mode.

Hense 2-stage.

-JimC (who did once spend some time researching how to port milo to i386,
but then got another job before starting any real coding....)

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