Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-12 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can we please kill zImage? In addition to be completely useless for > modern kernels, it causes unnecessary complexity in boot loaders. I hope so. BTW: I'd just kill old zImage and make it identical to bzImage (I mean "make zImage" would now

Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-12 Thread Bruce Ashfield
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Bruce Ashfield wrote: 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.

Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > 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. > Sorry, the

Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Bruce Ashfield wrote: 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. Sorry, the

Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-12 Thread Bruce Ashfield
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Bruce Ashfield wrote: 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.

Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-12 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can we please kill zImage? In addition to be completely useless for modern kernels, it causes unnecessary complexity in boot loaders. I hope so. BTW: I'd just kill old zImage and make it identical to bzImage (I mean make zImage would now produce

Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-11 Thread Bruce Ashfield
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

Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
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. Anyway... Can we please kill zImage? In addition to be completely useless for

Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
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. Anyway... Can we please kill zImage? In addition to be completely useless for

Re: Can we get rid of zImage this time?

2007-06-11 Thread Bruce Ashfield
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