On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:54:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > zImage is just the compressed vmlinux file, isn't it ? in this case it is
no > needed for apus. That said, back then for when i was doing apus kernel work, > and in charge of the -apus kernel images, i added a vmlinux.gz target to build > the needed kernel. Are zImage and vmlinux.gz (also called vmlinuz) the same ? no. <rant> this is absurd, this goofball archetecture needs too many fscking kernel images, i386 gets along with 2, soon to be one. sparc as gotten along fine with one (gzip -9 -c vmlinux > vmlinuz) sheesh. </rant> kernel-package is simply going to need some extra options, it must support a switch to define what kernel image formats it will include in the given package. we cannot have kernel-image packages with 20 different versions of the same damn image file when 19 of them are worthless cruft on any given system. that way apus uses -vmlinuz silo/yaboot/quik uses -vmlinuz, oldworld adds -miboot and -coff, and so on. there is probably a cleaner way to do this... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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