from the quill of Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> What's the "uncompressed" or "compressed" version of the kernel?
compressed = vmlinuz
uncompressed = vmlinux
>From my kernel build tree:
$ ls -l /usr/src/linux/vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brian brian 2229532 Oct 17 22:18 /usr/src/linux/vmlinux*
$ ls -l /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 795429 Oct 17 22:18
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> AFAIK
> there are just the compile targets "make zImage" and "make bzImage".
Yes, those are both the compressed images.
> There's no further compression involved in the bzImage case,
I know.
> just a
> different bootsequence is used in this case.
Yes, I do know that thanks.
> But it certainly is not
> compressed with bzip2, if you were thinking of that.
No I was not thinking of that. bzImage is a compressed format of
vmlinux.
vmlinux can be used with a debugger, bzImage cannot.
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
