[ipxe-devel] bzImage support?

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Thu Oct 11 11:59:21 UTC 2012


On Thursday 11 Oct 2012 00:13:25 Joshua Jensen wrote:
> I realize that ipxe supports the zImage format, and is made by default
> in the ipxe.lkrn during compile.
> 
> I'm wondering though if it would be possible to also support the bzImage?
> 
> Some of the newer bootloaders don't support zImage, and having ipxe in
> bzImage format would make it that much more flexible and awesome.

It's not possible at the moment.  It could be done, but would require a 
rewrite of lkrnprefix.S.

Michael



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