Re: x86: removing zImage support?

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Wed Mar 11 2009 - 13:40:57 EST


On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 10:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Woody Suwalski wrote:
> >>
> > If x86-only - OK.
> >
> > However zImage is the format used on ARM quite often... So any "kernel
> > complexity removal" need to happen only on x86 side.
> >
>
> I have no idea about ARM zImage... the whole zImage vs bzImage is pretty
> x86-specific in the first place, so yes, I was referring to x86
> specifically.

Is there any point in just making bzImage==zImage for x86?

I lost count of the number of times I've explained that bzImage has
nothing to do with bzip...

Ian.

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