linux-kernel - Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:14:12 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@...driver.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> 
> These beasts are still alive and kicking. I boot a handful of
> arm and ppc boards on a frequent basis that are zImage
> only.  The kicker is I don't have the bootloader source for
> most of them, so changing to a different image format is
> tough at best.
> 

Sorry, the zImage/bzImage distinction is x86 only.  Some other
architectures call their output zImage, but it's a different format
entirely.

So I was referring specifically to x86.

	-hpa
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