Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:23:58 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs |
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:03:40 +0200 > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> > > > Ok. I changed the `pwd` to $TOPDIR, as that's what we use everywhere > > else.. Objections? > > Now that we have a 'non-module' object in /lib/modules, we could simply > copy System.map and the bzImage/vmlinux there and rename it to /kernel ... > > That certainly makes a lot of sense; I've alwyas thought it was a bit > odd that some stuff was in /lib/modules and Systemp.map and bzImage are > stored in /boot. My guess is this is because Linus doesn't use modules, > so he doesn't see this particular aesthetic fault. :-)
The kernel image needs to be stored on a partition that can be reached by the boot loader, unlike modules.
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