Re: Kernels > 1M

Zack Weinberg (zack@bitmover.com)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:05:37 -0700

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <199908221932.MAA09515@zack.bitmover.com>
> By author: Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > It'd be really great if we could do this, because the zImage, bzImage,
> > etc. nonsense would just disappear and `vmlinux' would be bootable,
> > gzipped or not.
> >
>
> It would suck... because you just invented *yet another* format
> incompatible with all the rest.

I don't see why a plain ELF executable (possibly gzipped) is yet
another format.

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