Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-34,: Re: Kernels > 1M

# Re: Kernels > 1M

Derek Wildstar (dwild@linux.com)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:48:21 -0400 (EDT)

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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> > > It'd be really great if we could do this, because the zImage, bzImage,
> > > etc. nonsense would just disappear and `vmlinux' would be bootable,
> > > gzipped or not.
> >
> > It would suck... because you just invented *yet another* format
> > incompatible with all the rest.
>
> I don't see why a plain ELF executable (possibly gzipped) is yet
> another format.

Seems booting an uncompressed kernel directly from the FS would be the
sensible way to go...especially if this loader manages to get around
the 1024-cylinder BIOS limit. Every commercial UNIX i have worked with
has done this....I fail to see how we'd be creating an incompatible
format? Please elaborate =)

-dwild

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