Steve Pauly wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, zentara wrote:
>
> >
> > Steve Pauly wrote:
> >
> > > With all the traffic on the list about kernels, I thought this might be
> > > interesting.
> > > He states that the popular dists ship adequate kernels and the desire to
> > > recompile for speed is useless. Since modern pc's ship with 32MB or more
> > > Ram, modularizing is meaningless, he adds.
> > >
> >
> > Well modularization is now neccessary for most systems.
>
> Agreed. Please read the article to see why most people will not need to
> recompile.
>
> > Have you noticed how many people complain about the
> > error message "kernel too big" ?
>
> I thought the issue about big kernels mainly revolved around "make zImage"
> vs. "make bzImage". The times zImage didn't work, bzImage cured it, in my
> experience.
>
> >
> > I think Hubert has said that the kernel must be able to boot
> > within the old 640k dos limit.
>
I once read that Linus fooled the pc bios by making the kernel an image
of a bootable floppy. If it's right, the kernel image can't be more than
1.44Mo (may be 2.88 on some bioses).
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