Re: Is the x86-64 kernel size limit real?

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:45:41PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The limit should be removed from the boot tools; since we're talking 
> uncompressed limits those should be tested in the linker script if anywhere.

Probably yeah.  And the two build.c files should become one too.
There is version drift already.  I'm not a x86-64 maintainer though :-)

  OG.

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