Re: is bzImage container large enough?

Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:49:11 +1000



> The bug we fixed was that an uncompressed
> kernel could only be up to 4 meg in size, if it was larger, at
> uncompression time you'd just lose everything past the 4M mark.
> Todd Inglett raised the limit to 8 meg for us, and that's a mighty
> large penguin....

Computing the size at link time is neater and this is what he actually
does.

Anton
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