Hello,
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:04:21AM -0700, Soren Harward wrote:
> BTW, not being nearly as experienced with Alpha hardware as I am with
> Intel, why is there no "make bzImage" or "make vmlinuz" target in the
> kernel? I've been using "make vmlinux" which generates these *huge*
> kernels (2.8 megs stripped) even with almost everything compiled as a
> module, but I'm curious because the generic Debian kernels are about 1.2
> megs, even though they have a ton of drivers compiled in.
Historical reasons; IMHO it's quite strange that "make boot" (use this
in the future) is not supported properly on x86.
Greetings
Helge
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