Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> B2 (bzImage) is a fairly new compression algorithm, where GZIP
> (zImage) is much older. I suspect that the B2 implementation has a
> bit of debugging to go, and that may be what you hit.
As I understand it, "bzImage" and "zImage" use the same compression
scheme (gzip, deflate, whatever you want to call it). The difference is
in the loader methods used. "zImage" loads the kernel in low DOS memory
(640K), whereas the "bzImage" loader decompresses directly to high
extended memory. The chief difference is that the "zImage" loader
cannot load a kernel with a compressed size larger than about 600K or
so. The "bzImage" loader can load any size kernel, but does not work
with all hardware platforms (yet).
Horribly off-topic information, gleaned from the noisy linux-kernel
mailing list. :)
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