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

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:57:34 -0400
From:	Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@...driver.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Ah my mistake, I quickly scanned and didn't pick
up the x86 reference. Nothing to see here :)

Bruce

> 
> 	-hpa

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