zImage compressed with what?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
>  zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series.  Now you always get a bzImage,
>  which is not bzip2, but "big zImage".  If I'm not totally on crack, the

Ah yes, thanks for the clarification...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux#bzImage

>  compression used is gzip.  There's an x86 boot sector and some setup
>  data before the gzipped kernel image.  HTH,

I would guess that this is not true for PPC systems :-)
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