On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:03:40 +0200
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
>
> > Ok. I changed the `pwd` to $TOPDIR, as that's what we use everywhere
> > else.. Objections?
>
> Now that we have a 'non-module' object in /lib/modules, we could simply
> copy System.map and the bzImage/vmlinux there and rename it to /kernel ...
>
> That certainly makes a lot of sense; I've alwyas thought it was a bit
> odd that some stuff was in /lib/modules and Systemp.map and bzImage are
> stored in /boot. My guess is this is because Linus doesn't use modules,
> so he doesn't see this particular aesthetic fault. :-)
The kernel image needs to be stored on a partition that can be reached by
the boot loader, unlike modules.
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