At 01:00 AM 2/1/99 -0600, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
>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. :)
I bow to your lInux-kernel mailing list information. Thanks for the
correction.
As you say, off topic. End of discussion.
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