Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernels > 1M | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:05:37 -0700 | From | Zack Weinberg <> |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <199908221932.MAA09515@zack.bitmover.com> > By author: Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > It'd be really great if we could do this, because the zImage, bzImage, > > etc. nonsense would just disappear and `vmlinux' would be bootable, > > gzipped or not. > > > > It would suck... because you just invented *yet another* format > incompatible with all the rest.
I don't see why a plain ELF executable (possibly gzipped) is yet another format.
zw
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