From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754105AbZCKKYy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753364AbZCKKYq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:46 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:37982 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752527AbZCKKYp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:24:39 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , the arch/x86 maintainers Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support? Message-ID: <20090311102439.GA32512@elte.hu> References: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm thinking again about removing zImage support. An > "allnoconfig" kernel (with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y to expose > additional knobs, and CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y so it can do > anything at all) is currently 487K on i386 -- very close to > the upper limit of 512K for zImage. > > Are there *any* residual users of this, or should I just push > a patch to remove it once and for all? Havent seen any zImage bugreport for years, so go for it. In the unlikely case of someone still relying on it and having a good use case we'll get a bugreport and can consider putting it back in. Ingo