Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2005 07:26:26 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: zImage on 2.6? |
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 06:45:03 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote:
| Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > On Mon, 2 May 2005 21:29:51 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote: | > | Is it possible to use zImage on 2.6 kernels or is bzImage required? | > | > What processor architecture? | | x86. Does zImage work on other arches? (I've only ever dealt with alpha | and sparc other than x86)
I don't know if it works, just that it's listed in: ppc, arm, sh, cris, arm26, m68k, ppc64, parisc, m32r, frv, and sh64. and i386.
| > It's supported in arch/i386/Makefile (and some others). | > For i386, you'll need to disable enough (lots of) options to make the | > resulting output file small enough... | | The resultant bzImage is ~760kb. I compiled out everything I could, only | ram disk/initrd, and ext2 are compiled in. | | If you'd like to see the .config, I'll send it up.
Are you saying that zImage still fails (image is too large?) ?
I built one, but I wouldn't want to boot it. :) It looks like you would need to put almost everything into an initrd to make it usable.
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