Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:14:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't
> > managed to uncover.
> > 
> > The short story is that I need to know what sort of kernel images to
> > build for booting with miboot.  Should I tell make-kpkg "--zimage" or
> > "--bzimage" and either way, which image file in the resulting package
> 
> bzimage is a i386 specific kludge to work around that archetecture's
> fundementally broken design.  
> 
> zImage is sometimes useful on powerpc, in this case not really.  

zImage is just the compressed vmlinux file, isn't it ? in this case it is
needed for apus. That said, back then for when i was doing apus kernel work,
and in charge of the -apus kernel images, i added a vmlinux.gz target to build
the needed kernel. Are zImage and vmlinux.gz (also called vmlinuz) the same ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther