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SubjectRe: zImage support in test3
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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.

-hpa
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