Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 Sep 2001 15:41:41 -0500 | From | Tom Gall <> | Subject | Re: is bzImage container large enough? |
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Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:28:06 +0000 (UTC), > Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru> wrote: > > If one wanting to turn on virtually every kernel CONFIG_* option > > in order to check if the kernel compiles and then report possible > > gcc errors to lkml, will the resulting kernel fit the bzImage format? > > No, it is far too big.
We just "fixed" this sort of problem for ppc64 the other day. Course we don't use bzImages but rather zImages but none the less it was still anoying since we can boot zImages over the network and of course that makes it quite reasonable to blow past the 1.44 floppy limitation. The bug we fixed was that an uncompressed kernel could only be up to 4 meg in size, if it was larger, at uncompression time you'd just lose everything past the 4M mark. Todd Inglett raised the limit to 8 meg for us, and that's a mighty large penguin....
Regards,
Tom
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