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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/setup] x86: remove zImage support
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:25:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B961A3.1090401@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236879901.24144.26.camel@test.thuisdomein>

Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 18:06 +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile      |   23 +++++++--------------
>>  arch/x86/boot/header.S      |   29 ++++++++-------------------
>>  arch/x86/boot/pm.c          |   44 -------------------------------------------
>>  arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c |    9 +-------
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h |    4 ---
>>  5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
> 
> Shouldn't the zImage target (and therefore the compressed, zlilo, and
> zdisk targets) also be dropped from arch/x86/Makefile?
> 

Yes.

> Should the zlilo and zdisk targets be renamed to bzlilo and bzdisk in
> this file?

No.  They've been called zlilo and zdisk despite being bzImages for a
*long* time.

> is_big_kernel now is unused. It can be dropped entirely, can't it?

Yes, it was supposed to have been, but I apparently missed it.

Thanks for the look-over.

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 19:30 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
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 [this message]
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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