> | make bzImage
>
> Everyone says this, and I know it works (had to figure it out myself
> some months ago) but I'd like to know: bzip2 is a better compression;
> if it's just the better compression ratio then people could be bitten
> by this again in a while, with no fallback. If, on the other hand, the
> bzImage is a fundamentally different storage layout without this
> (undocumented?) size limit, why make a zImage at all these days?
No, bzImage still uses gzip. bzImage uses a differnt file format which
makes it not subject to the 512k image size limit. The bzImage can be upto
16MB I believe.
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