Re: Kernels > 1M
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:34:03 -0700
Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> 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.
>
You've got to be joking, right?
Is it something the current boot loaders can boot? No. Why not?
Because it is another format. Clue?
-hpa
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