Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:50:10 +0100 | From | Remco Post <> | Subject | Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd) |
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:35:57 +0000 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:07:04PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:25:20AM +0000, you [Russell King] wrote: > > > Agreed - zImage is already around 1MB on many ARM machines, and since > > > loading zImage over a serial port using xmodem takes long enough > > > already, this is one silly feature I'll definitely keep out of the > > > ARM tree. > > > > Why not make it a config option (like the other (two? three?) rejected > > patches that implemented this did)? > > I, for one, do not see any point in trying to put more and more crap > into one file, when its perfectly easy to just use the "cp" command > to produce the same end result, namely a copy of zImage, System.map > and configuration, thusly: > > cp arch/$ARCH/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz-$VERSION > cp .config /boot/config-$VERSION > cp System.map /boot/System.map-$VERSION >
Hmm, and how would you implement that on a system (ppc/prep) that could very easily netboot a kernel... no /boot needed? I for one build kernels on one box that is more or less production and netboot another just to see it fail horribly... having all stuff in one file could help....
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Remco Post
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