Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:28:24 +0100 | From | Jan Niehusmann <> | Subject | Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 |
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:27:36AM -0800, Max Inux wrote: > >gzip, actually. I can verify here "make bzImage" does the expected thing > >and it looks normal-sized to me. > > I believe there is zImage (gzip) and bzImage (bzip2). (Or is it compress > vs gzip, but then why bzImage vs gzImage?)
IMHO bzImage means something like 'big zImage', it uses the same compression but a different loader. IIRC bzImage became necessary when the (uncompressed) kernel grew above 1MB.
Jan
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