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SubjectRe: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2
Max Inux wrote:
>
> >gzip, actually. I can verify here "make bzImage" does the expected thing
> >and it looks normal-sized to me.
>
> I believe there is zImage (gzip) and bzImage (bzip2). (Or is it compress
> vs gzip, but then why bzImage vs gzImage?)
>

b is "big". They are both gzip compressed. zImage has a size limit
which bzImage doesn't. zImage is pretty much obsolete.

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