Messages in this thread |  | | From | "James A. Sutherland" <> | Subject | Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:49:29 +0000 |
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, 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?)
Neither. They are both compressed the same way (gzip, IIRC) - the difference is in how they are loaded. bzImage (= BIG zImage) has a loader which can handle >1Mb RAM; zImage has to be loaded into normal DOS memory, so it has a size limitation.
> >> On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting. Though I thought > >> it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine. > >> > > > >No, there isn't. There used to be, but it has been fixed. > > Ok then, I was on crank, and apparently so is he =)
ROFL! What is this "crank" stuff, BTW - some sort of auto lubricant, or ...?
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