x86: removing zImage support?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 20:21:18 EST


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?

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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