Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: zImage support in test3 | Date | 30 Jul 2000 13:06:10 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000730133728.30992A-100000@eclipse.asta.uni-essen.de> By author: Kai Schulte <kai@eclipse.asta.uni-essen.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > my good old 2MB 386SX terminal > > > won't be amused if I ask it to load a bzImage ;) > > > > Can you try? :) > > Why would you try? The compressed image will load fine but there > won't be any memory to decompress into, so it'll grind to a halt. >
No, it will grind to a halt because of a hard-coded limit (in setup.S, I believe.) It is currently set to 2MB for zImage and 4MB for bzImage. I suspect those values are completely arbitrary; trying without it would be interesting.
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