When we build our kernel we get two type of image
1)Image
2)zImage
1)Image
Its a generic kernel binary image file which is uncompressed. We don't use this image because of the size of this file.
2)zImage
Its a compressed version of image file that is self extracting we mostly use zImage because the size of this image is very less as compared to image and it takes very less time to decompress. Additional benefit of zImage is that its assured the integrity of image , any error will result in failed decompress.
1)Image
2)zImage
1)Image
Its a generic kernel binary image file which is uncompressed. We don't use this image because of the size of this file.
2)zImage
Its a compressed version of image file that is self extracting we mostly use zImage because the size of this image is very less as compared to image and it takes very less time to decompress. Additional benefit of zImage is that its assured the integrity of image , any error will result in failed decompress.
