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SubjectRe: Advantages of zImage vs. bzImage for 2.2.x kernel?
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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.
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