Re: another RFC patch: bzImage with ELF payload

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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> BTW, this won't apply as-is; I have some mucking-around patches to try
>> and get the linux/elf*.h headers into a bit more order, but that's not
>> ready yet.
>>   
>
> BTW2: I've been basically ignoring zImage.  Do we need to support it at
> all?  Has anyone used it in the last 10 years?

zImage is uninteresting.  I think HPA explicitly dropped support a few
years ago so we can't even build it.

That said a bImage (non-compressed bzImage).  Might actually be
interesting.

The kernel image history is:

Image:   -- noncompressed image loaded  below 1M.
zImage:  -- compressed image loaded below 1M.
bzImage: -- compressed image loaded above 1M.

For people who want to compress it themselves a
bImage:  -- non-compressed image loaded above 1M.
could be interesting.

Eric
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