x86: remove zImage support

Impact: obsolete feature removal

The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
time.  It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
anyone ever uses it.  Furthermore, although it is still supported by
most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
not having even noticed.

Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
meaning.

LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
index 44dc192..ee3a4ea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static void die(const char * str, ...)
 
 static void usage(void)
 {
-	die("Usage: build [-b] setup system [rootdev] [> image]");
+	die("Usage: build setup system [rootdev] [> image]");
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char ** argv)
@@ -145,11 +145,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
 	void *kernel;
 	u32 crc = 0xffffffffUL;
 
-	if (argc > 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-b"))
-	  {
-	    is_big_kernel = 1;
-	    argc--, argv++;
-	  }
 	if ((argc < 3) || (argc > 4))
 		usage();
 	if (argc > 3) {
@@ -216,8 +211,6 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
 		die("Unable to mmap '%s': %m", argv[2]);
 	/* Number of 16-byte paragraphs, including space for a 4-byte CRC */
 	sys_size = (sz + 15 + 4) / 16;
-	if (!is_big_kernel && sys_size > DEF_SYSSIZE)
-		die("System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.");
 
 	/* Patch the setup code with the appropriate size parameters */
 	buf[0x1f1] = setup_sectors-1;