linux-kernel - Re: x86: removing zImage support?

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:14:01 -0400
From:	Woody Suwalski <woodys@...dros.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support?

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm thinking again about removing zImage support.  An "allnoconfig"
> kernel (with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y to expose additional knobs, and
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y so it can do anything at all) is currently 487K on
> i386 -- very close to the upper limit of 512K for zImage.
>
> Are there *any* residual users of this, or should I just push a patch to
> remove it once and for all?
>
> 	-hpa
>
>   
If x86-only - OK.

However zImage is the format used on ARM quite often... So any "kernel complexity removal" need to happen only on x86 side.


Woody

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Woody Suwalski, Xandros, Ottawa, Canada, 1-613-842-3498 x414

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