Talk:Vmlinux
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I've tried to destub this article a bit, please revert any mistakes. I didn't think it was nescessary to create seperate articles on vmlinuz, bzImage, zImage, etc, so I removed any links like that, perhaps we should redir them here? -- taviso 02:49, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] vmlinux or vmlinuz?
the article explains why the kernel should be called "vmlinux" ("The name vmlinux is a mutation of vmunix."), but actually iy used to be "vmlinuz":
- but by convention it is called vmlinuz or zImage.
what's the origin of this "z"?
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- I thought the 'z' was used simply to differentiate a compressed kernel image from a non-compressed image. --Brolin Empey 03:29, 2005 September 11 (UTC)
can someone describe how to make vmlinux file from vmlinuz ? thanks.
[edit] vmlinuz is not the same as vmlinux
In all fairness, I think there should be more of an emphasis on the differences between vmlinux and vmlinuz on this page. To me it also seems wrong to redirect vmlinuz to vmlinux seeing as one is compressed and bootable and the other uncompressed and unbootable.
And to answer the question how to make a compressed kernel, "make bzImage" is the way to do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.85.206.228 (talk) 15:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
