Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Aug 1999 03:47:30 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: bzImage patch ? for monolithic kernels |
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Riley Williams wrote: > > > Actually, I don't see why 16 MB would be a limit for bzImage > > either... > > Memory says that the 16 MB limit is because the bzImage copying code > works in 286 protected mode, as that's the mode used by the BIOS > copying routines that it depends on, and 16 MB is the hardware limit > in that mode. >
Where do you see that?
> > If my patch works the way it looks like, then 64 Terabytes will be the > actual kernel size limit as far as storage is concerned, so having a > gzImage format that could work past that limit would be feasible. Such > would presumably be done via a two-stage process, with the bzImage > code copying the first 16 MB, and a secondary routine then copying the > rest of the kernel into place. >
This would just be a bug fix to bzImage, not a new format (the boot loaders would be unaffected.)
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