Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Advantages of zImage vs. bzImage for 2.2.x kernel? | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:27:07 EST | From | Kev <> |
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> zImage. The main advantage, I guess, is that in a bzImage the kernel > is compressed with bzip, which can compress things tighter than gzip
This is incorrect; a bzImage is still compressed with gzip. The 'b' comes from the rewritten boot loader, which can handle a larger kernel image. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu> ------------------------- -. .---- --.. ..- -..- -------------------------- http://web.mit.edu/klmitch/www/ (PGP keys availiable from here) RSA AE87D37D/1024: DE EA 1E 99 3F 2B F9 23 A0 D8 05 E0 6F BA B9 D2 DSS ED0DB34E/1024: D9BF 0E74 FDCB 43F5 C597 878F 9455 EC24 ED0D B34E DH 2A2C31D4/2048: 1A77 4BA5 9E32 14AE 87DA 9FEC 7106 FC62 2A2C 31D4
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