Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:03:24 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support?
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm thinking again about removing zImage support.  An 
> > "allnoconfig" kernel (with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y to expose 
> > additional knobs, and CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y so it can do 
> > anything at all) is currently 487K on i386 -- very close to 
> > the upper limit of 512K for zImage.
> > 
> > Are there *any* residual users of this, or should I just push 
> > a patch to remove it once and for all?
> 
> Havent seen any zImage bugreport for years, so go for it. In the 
> unlikely case of someone still relying on it and having a good 
> use case we'll get a bugreport and can consider putting it back 
> in.

I haven't seen any zImage for years in the embedded space either.
Go for it.

Thanks,

	tglx


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