What is the difference between zImage and bzImage Kernel?
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Both zImage and bzImage use the same gzip compression for compressing the kernel image, the difference lies between the maximum sizes supported by each, for zImage the kernel image size is limited to 520KB, however this restriction does not exist in the bzImage format.
bzImage is the commonly used kernel image nowadays and zImage is outdated.
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what is the difference between bzImage and uImage in linux os
By Ajoy on Feb 29, 2008
hi
By Ajoy on Feb 29, 2008