On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:39:45AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > OMG, I forgot about apus. I give up. As for zImage, let's strickly > stick to ppc, zImage is the compressed coff format kernel which has > only one single use that I know of, and that is for the miboot
guess what? your wrong, at least as far as 2.2 is concerned (i don't see why 2.4 would be different): [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb$ grep linux src/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/miBoot/mkboot.sh hcopy -r linuxpmac.gz :zImage for those not working in the gory mess of boot-floppies, linuxpmac.gz is an ELF image NOT a coff image, the coff image is created as linux.coff. > floppy. SPARC doesn't even need to compress their kernels, damnit. > vmlinux.gz is the elf format kernel compressed with gz and I'll be > damned if I know what that is for. Maybe bootx can handle those. saves space on the small root filesystem, saves time on slow tftp netboots. > But why would you if you didn't have to, unless you really are that > short on disk space or were being forced to put it on a floppy (for > xfer) or something. why would you not want to compress the kernel image? its not like it does anything useful if you execute it from a shell, other then dump core. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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