On 6/11/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I brought this up a few years ago, and had it shot down, because of a few poorly substantiated claims of zImage-only machines; those claims really need to be debugged since they might indicate A20-related failures.
These beasts are still alive and kicking. I boot a handful of arm and ppc boards on a frequent basis that are zImage only. The kicker is I don't have the bootloader source for most of them, so changing to a different image format is tough at best. Not a vote one way or the other, just some observations from my day to day. Bruce
Anyway... Can we please kill zImage? In addition to be completely useless for modern kernels, it causes unnecessary complexity in boot loaders. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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