Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: zImage on 2.6? | Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:58:06 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <m3k6mg5fly.fsf@defiant.localdomain> By author: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> writes: > > > x86. Does zImage work on other arches? (I've only ever dealt with alpha > > and sparc other than x86) > > Sure, ARM for example. 2 MB is not a problem.
That's a completely different meaning of zImage then. The x86 boot protocol (also used on x86-64) only allows 504K for zImage.
For x86, zImage is so dead it's not even funny. I tried to remove it a few years ago but people complained.
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