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SubjectRe: Is the x86-64 kernel size limit real?
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Olivier Galibert wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:27:08AM +0000, Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
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>>Olivier Galibert wrote:
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>>>which shows two things:
>>>1- a8f5034540195307362d071a8b387226b410469f should have a x86-64 version
>>>2- the limit looks entirely artificial
>>>
>>>So, is removing the limit prone to bite me?
>>>
>>> OG.
>>
>>The build system merely tries to warn you it's not going to fit on a
>>floppy disk. "bzImage" means "Big zImage", not "bz2-compressed Image",
>>so unless you're building a floppy disk, don't use zImage.
>
>
> You failed to notice the "is_big_kernel ? 0x40000 : ..." part, which
> means the 4Mb limit is for bzImage. And the "die(...)" part, which
> means it's not a warning but an error.
>

Sorry, I thought it was you who made that patch.
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