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

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:02:16 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
CC:	Woody Suwalski <woodys@...dros.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support?

Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> Is there any point in just making bzImage==zImage for x86?
> 

Not really.  The *last* thing we want is to make people start using the
name zImage, and then getting confused when an older kernel doesn't build.

> I lost count of the number of times I've explained that bzImage has
> nothing to do with bzip...

Just to be extra confusing, in -tip there is code to compress it with
bzip2 ;)

	-hpa

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

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