From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: removing zImage support?
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:03:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B7EEEA.3080203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B7C729.5080301@xandros.com>
Woody Suwalski wrote:
>>
> If x86-only - OK.
>
> However zImage is the format used on ARM quite often... So any "kernel
> complexity removal" need to happen only on x86 side.
>
I have no idea about ARM zImage... the whole zImage vs bzImage is pretty
x86-specific in the first place, so yes, I was referring to x86
specifically.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 0:20 x86: removing zImage support? H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 1:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-11 1:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 10:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-11 11:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-11 14:14 ` Woody Suwalski
2009-03-11 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-11 17:39 ` Ian Campbell
2009-03-11 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11 18:06 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86: remove zImage support H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-12 17:45 ` Paul Bolle
2009-03-12 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-12 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-12 19:57 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86: remove additional vestiges of the zImage/bzImage split H. Peter Anvin
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