Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Big kernel again | Date | 3 Dec 1998 00:39:13 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812020949590.30514-100000@draal.physics.wisc.edu> By author: Bob McElrath <mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Besides: what is the current absolute limit of 2.1 kernels with > > bzImage again? I consider it useful to have a fully-fledged kernel with > > everything linked in - no modules. Might be safety reasons, might be > > shutting down the hard disk after boot (well, okay, insmod without > > removable option would do also), might be saving the kernel module > > loader overhead or anything else. > > Seems to me this problem will only get worse. One solution is to buy > non-Intel hardware, since Intel is so braindead. Another is to perhaps > encourage the maintainers of LILO to add protected mode initialization code, > so that LILO can load an arbitrarily large file. >
HELLO? This is EXACTLY what bzImage is, and it has been supported for a long, long time.
This is getting downright silly.
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