Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:08:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:08:27 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:35080 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:08:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0DA720.990C4927@transmeta.com> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:08:00 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Inux CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Max Inux wrote: > > >gzip, actually. I can verify here "make bzImage" does the expected thing > >and it looks normal-sized to me. > > I believe there is zImage (gzip) and bzImage (bzip2). (Or is it compress > vs gzip, but then why bzImage vs gzImage?) > b is "big". They are both gzip compressed. zImage has a size limit which bzImage doesn't. zImage is pretty much obsolete. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/