Re: bzImage limitation question

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 09:28:07 EST


Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> I am curious about the current state of play with respect to the bzImage
> size limitation

Hmm, which limitation exactly ?

> (answers like use EFI don't count because until
> implementations exist it is just a very nice set of slides and papers).

What's EFI ?

> I am interested in anything ranging from some hacks to raise the limit a
> bit to fully-featured protected mode ELF kernel image loaders, if anyone
> is working on anything like that?

See the "Load linux...from linux?" thread. Both LOBOS and bootimg should
be able to load fairly large kernels. (bootimg currently limits you to
4 MB for kernel(+initrd), but this will change; LOBOS may already be
"unlimited".)

- Werner

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