Re: zImage on 2.6?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20050503095913.1c9b62ba.rddunlap@xxxxxxxx>
By author:    "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> | 
> | Yes, I do recall it says "System is 724k".  zImage failes.  bzImage says
> | 724k as well and succeeds.
> 
> The image size needs to be <= 0x7f000 (520192 bytes, 508 KB).
> 
> (No, I don't know why, just that this is what is being
> enforced.)
> 

Because that's the size of the hole that a zImage has to fit inside.

WTF is someone using zImage still?

    -hpa
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