Re: zImage on 2.6?

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Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2005 21:29:51 -0400 Wakko Warner wrote:
> | Is it possible to use zImage on 2.6 kernels or is bzImage required?
> 
> What processor architecture?

x86.  Does zImage work on other arches?  (I've only ever dealt with alpha
and sparc other than x86)

> It's supported in arch/i386/Makefile (and some others).
> For i386, you'll need to disable enough (lots of) options to make the
> resulting output file small enough...

The resultant bzImage is ~760kb.  I compiled out everything I could, only
ram disk/initrd, and ext2 are compiled in.

If you'd like to see the .config, I'll send it up.

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