Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:20:19 -0400 | From | "Bruce Ashfield" <> | Subject | Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time? |
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On 6/11/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > I brought this up a few years ago, and had it shot down, because of a > few poorly substantiated claims of zImage-only machines; those claims > really need to be debugged since they might indicate A20-related failures.
These beasts are still alive and kicking. I boot a handful of arm and ppc boards on a frequent basis that are zImage only. The kicker is I don't have the bootloader source for most of them, so changing to a different image format is tough at best.
Not a vote one way or the other, just some observations from my day to day.
Bruce
> > Anyway... > > Can we please kill zImage? In addition to be completely useless for > modern kernels, it causes unnecessary complexity in boot loaders. > > -hpa > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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