On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:36:52PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: > > Actually you don't need either zImage or bzImage. Those are compressed images > which are needed on the PC platforms, but not on PPC. Instead, do: >
this is not quite true. bzImage is indeed specific to x86 hardware to work around its deficiencies. zImage is quite valid and useful on powerpc hardware, it usually creates a .coff format kernel image which is directly bootable by OpenFirmware on oldworld powermacs. other non-apple powerpc hardware uses other format kernels created by zImage. (mostly varients of coff) vmlinux is simply the most commonly used format for Power*Macs* -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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