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

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Message-ID: <m3ir9sygu9.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:59:26 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
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" <hpa@...or.com> writes:

> Can we please kill zImage?  In addition to be completely useless for
> modern kernels, it causes unnecessary complexity in boot loaders.

I hope so.

BTW: I'd just kill old zImage and make it identical to bzImage
(I mean "make zImage" would now produce arch/i386/zImage identical
to arch/i386/bzImage made by "make bzImage").

Then we could use zImage as for other platforms.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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