[Wylug-help] Re: Reproduceable kernel build

[Tom Ward]

> 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.

You're entirely right, of course. I'd been misled because of some sources
saying that you shouldn't use bzImages on particularly slow machines, you
should use vmlinuzes because the decompression time is a problem - with
the implication of bzip2 because it can be quite disturbingly slow on old
machines. But I guess gzip -9 (from the Makefile) is going to be pretty slow
itself...

Cheers,

Tom