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

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:03:38 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Woody Suwalski <woodys@...dros.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support?

Woody Suwalski wrote:
>>   
> 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.
> 

I have no idea about ARM zImage... the whole zImage vs bzImage is pretty
x86-specific in the first place, so yes, I was referring to x86
specifically.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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