Vmlinux (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Vmlinux" in English language version.

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4kernelnewbies.org

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kernel.org

git.kernel.org

Linux 2.6.33, released on February 24, 2010, added support to compress the kernel image with LZO [2]

kernelnewbies.org

Linux 2.6.30, released the 9th of June 2009, added support to compress the kernel image with the LZMA and bzip2 algorithms [1]
Linux 2.6.38, released on March 14, 2011, added support to compress the kernel image with xz [3]
Linux 3.11, released on September 2, 2013, added support to compress the kernel image with LZ4 [4]
Linux 5.9, released on October 11, 2020, added support to compress the kernel image, initrd and initramfs with zstd [5]

linfo.org

"vmlinuz Definition". www.linfo.org. Bellevue Linux. March 29, 2005. Retrieved 2015-06-21.

lkml.org

Yann Droneaud (1999-09-28). "Re: bzImage decompression". LKML (Mailing list). The zImage contain bootsect.o + setup.o + misc.o + piggy.o

pathname.com

"Section 3.5.2 — /boot : Static files of the boot loader". FHS 2.3. 2004-01-29. Retrieved 2014-03-11. The operating system kernel must be located in either / or /boot.