linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/setup] x86: remove zImage support

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Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:25:23 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/setup] x86: remove zImage support

Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 18:06 +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile      |   23 +++++++--------------
>>  arch/x86/boot/header.S      |   29 ++++++++-------------------
>>  arch/x86/boot/pm.c          |   44 -------------------------------------------
>>  arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c |    9 +-------
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h |    4 ---
>>  5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
> 
> Shouldn't the zImage target (and therefore the compressed, zlilo, and
> zdisk targets) also be dropped from arch/x86/Makefile?
> 

Yes.

> Should the zlilo and zdisk targets be renamed to bzlilo and bzdisk in
> this file?

No.  They've been called zlilo and zdisk despite being bzImages for a
*long* time.

> is_big_kernel now is unused. It can be dropped entirely, can't it?

Yes, it was supposed to have been, but I apparently missed it.

Thanks for the look-over.

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

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