> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
>
> > what exactely is the difference between bzImage and zImage?
>
> bzImage allows kernels bigger then 512k (a very real situation when you
> have both SMP and SCSI). zImage did not allow this.
>
> bzImage requires newer versions of the various loaders.
How does this relate to loaders for non-x86 architectures? For instance, I
have recently switched to Alpha and am building with "make boot" (based on
perusal of the Makefile; I can find no documentation).
thanks,
-bp
-- B. James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org> Linux Software Engineer, WGT Inc. http://earth.terran.org/~bryan
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