Re: It's time to get rid of zImage

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"James H. Cloos Jr." wrote:
>
> >>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> hpa> vmlinux (.gz) in the current form would not be appropriate for
> hpa> booting on i386 though.
>
> hpa> The kernel needs a "setup" that runs in 16-bit real mode.
>
> Hense 2-stage.
>

Doesn't help you -- multistaging usually just means more awkward APIs,
or no APIs at all (GRUB being a good example.)

        -hpa

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