[OLPC-devel] mkelfImage woes

Tue Aug 1 09:08:32 EDT 2006

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> I noticed we currently use the bzImage as basis for mkelfImage and I'm
> wondering whether we really want to do that because bzImage contains lots of
> code we don't need.
> [...]
> Can we feed arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz (or
> arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin) to mkelfImage and it will still boot? If so, we would
> save quite a lot of space without even changing the compression algorithm.

Scratch that. I found out that mkelfImage will gladly handle vmlinux.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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