Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758229AbXFLCU3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:20:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757202AbXFLCUW (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:20:22 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]:34410 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756687AbXFLCUV (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:20:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=BhlzwfNrxpLnifuAdzNBNW74pkrrI9nWJECdhgOZwPk2ffxwEmMk3wUF9huNNGEx1c07Sjwc1JwW+Iyr20oB8lST3+7OtpA/v3PD2ABsJaMdlsVm9JDo2Yk4TJP2LMny0C/bgyX56k9OdWTRaGjtpiKgcz3W8R4IbRCusyig8hY= Message-ID: <3bd6b93c0706111920p36d866a6m18915696fd386473@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:20:19 -0400 From: "Bruce Ashfield" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time? Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <466DE04C.4020303@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <466DE04C.4020303@zytor.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 516b177213f05a55 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1371 Lines: 40 On 6/11/07, H. Peter Anvin 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/ > -- "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end" - 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/