Re: Big kernel again

Hans Lermen (lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:35:15 +0100 (MET)


On 3 Dec 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > Max on bzImage is (I believe) 16megs.
> >
>
> No hard maximum on bzImage, although the kernel may get confused if
> there is no ISA DMA memory at all available.

There _is_ a limit for bzImages and its 16 * 0xffff for the gzipped
kernel part.

Hans
<lermen@fgan.de>

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