Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 07:26:26 -0700
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zImage on 2.6?
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 06:45:03 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote:

| Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > On Mon, 2 May 2005 21:29:51 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote:
| > | Is it possible to use zImage on 2.6 kernels or is bzImage required?
| > 
| > What processor architecture?
| 
| x86.  Does zImage work on other arches?  (I've only ever dealt with alpha
| and sparc other than x86)

I don't know if it works, just that it's listed in:
ppc, arm, sh, cris, arm26, m68k, ppc64, parisc, m32r, frv,
and sh64.  and i386.

| > It's supported in arch/i386/Makefile (and some others).
| > For i386, you'll need to disable enough (lots of) options to make the
| > resulting output file small enough...
| 
| The resultant bzImage is ~760kb.  I compiled out everything I could, only
| ram disk/initrd, and ext2 are compiled in.
| 
| If you'd like to see the .config, I'll send it up.

Are you saying that zImage still fails (image is too large?) ?

I built one, but I wouldn't want to boot it.  :)
It looks like you would need to put almost everything into
an initrd to make it usable.

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~Randy
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