Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:08:00 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 |
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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?) >
b is "big". They are both gzip compressed. zImage has a size limit which bzImage doesn't. zImage is pretty much obsolete.
-hpa
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