build result :


yalin@ubuntu:~/linux-next$ ll ../kernel_out_arm/arch/arm/boot/*Image*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 yalin yalin 14487552 Oct 13 15:08 ../kernel_out_arm/arch/arm/boot/Image*       # apply the patch
-rwxrwxr-x 1 yalin yalin 14512128 Oct 12 11:48 ../kernel_out_arm/arch/arm/boot/Image_old*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 yalin yalin  6479568 Oct 13 15:08 ../kernel_out_arm/arch/arm/boot/zImage*    # apply the patch
-rwxrwxr-x 1 yalin yalin  6479664 Oct 12 17:31 ../kernel_out_arm/arch/arm/boot/zImage_old*


Image size shrink about 24576 bytes
zImage seems not change much .

it will be more useful for platform which don’t use compress Image like ARM64 / x86 platform i think.

Thanks