> I think it'd be a great idea to finally remove the ability to build
> zImages from the kernel, and just make all x86 builds bzImages. It's
> bootcode that gets chucked after we load anyway, so from the small
> increase in code size that I see the switch won't adversely effect
> anything.
The real problem is not code size, but that not every boot loader
supports bzImages (this includes several network booting packages).
> It would be a much saner way of doing it than having to have the user
> 'guess' if they're at the zImage memory limit with their config, and then
> go through a build that fails screaming 'build me as bzImage', only to
> have to be bugged with finishing compiling with 'make bzImage'.
Nobody needs to guess -- you can compile _every_ your kernel as
a bzImage.
Have a nice fortnight
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