[Wylug-help] Re: Reproduceable kernel build

Jim Jackson jj at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:50:27 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Tom Ward wrote:
>
> > Remember bZimage is simply a bzip'd copy of vmlinux
>
> gzipped, no?
>

The 'b' in bzimage is for "big" - in earlier kernels there was a limit to
the size of the kernel (was it 512K?), and the bzimage was the solution.
It has nothing to do with bzip. Yeah it's confusing.