Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 17:59:38 EST


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Can we please kill zImage? In addition to be completely useless for
> modern kernels, it causes unnecessary complexity in boot loaders.

I hope so.

BTW: I'd just kill old zImage and make it identical to bzImage
(I mean "make zImage" would now produce arch/i386/zImage identical
to arch/i386/bzImage made by "make bzImage").

Then we could use zImage as for other platforms.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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