Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261190AbVECQeO (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 12:34:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261297AbVECQeO (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 12:34:14 -0400 Received: from animx.eu.org ([216.98.75.249]:12424 "EHLO animx.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261190AbVECQeJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 12:34:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:33:43 -0400 From: Wakko Warner To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: zImage on 2.6? Message-ID: <20050503163343.GC11937@animx.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050503012951.GA10459@animx.eu.org> <20050502193503.20e6ac6e.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20050503104503.GA11123@animx.eu.org> <20050503072626.3a3c7349.rddunlap@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050503072626.3a3c7349.rddunlap@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 32 Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2005 06:45:03 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote: > | > 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?) ? Yes, I do recall it says "System is 724k". zImage failes. bzImage says 724k as well and succeeds. > 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. That was the idea in this. Once I get my stuff the way I want it, I'll probably move on to using initramfs. My initrd is using ramdisk, my / is on tmpfs and is populated by .tgz files on other media (The boot time is generally short lived by design anyway) -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - 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/