Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: bzImage patch ? for monolithic kernels | Date | 6 Aug 1999 00:02:38 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908052016210.13486-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> By author: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Whilst the bzImage format itsef can handle kernels up to 16M in size, > there is a problem with boot loaders once the kernel gets to be over > 1M in size, and that is the current limit. > > There HAS to be a way round that limit, but I for one haven't the > foggiest what it is... > > Best wishes from Riley. >
Zeroeth-order: change the 0xffff constant on line 173 of linux/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c to something more appropriate (0xfffff for example) and see what breaks...
Actually, I don't see why 16 MB would be a limit for bzImage either...
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