Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:48:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Derek Wildstar <> | Subject | Re: Kernels > 1M |
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > > It'd be really great if we could do this, because the zImage, bzImage, > > > etc. nonsense would just disappear and `vmlinux' would be bootable, > > > gzipped or not. > > > > It would suck... because you just invented *yet another* format > > incompatible with all the rest. > > I don't see why a plain ELF executable (possibly gzipped) is yet > another format.
Seems booting an uncompressed kernel directly from the FS would be the sensible way to go...especially if this loader manages to get around the 1024-cylinder BIOS limit. Every commercial UNIX i have worked with has done this....I fail to see how we'd be creating an incompatible format? Please elaborate =)
-dwild
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