Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:17:34 +0100 | | From | Russell King <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: default kernel image |
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:07:39PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Better make life easier - but in a nice and structured way.
Life /was/ easy when there was just zImage and Image on ARM. All you had to do was decide whether you wanted a compressed or uncompressed binary image of the kernel, where compressed images were the normal.
And this is the way I'd preferred it to stay since we have a nice sane structured idea of what we provide without any major "what file format do I need" problems.
The problem starts happening when boot loaders think they can dictate to the kernel what format they want the kernel to be in - at that point the number of kernel image formats and methods to boot the kernel increases and everything gets a lot more complex.
This is the whole basis of my argument. We shouldn't make it easy for people to extend this stupid idea that the boot loader defines the format which the kernel shall be in. It's the _wrong_ idea.
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