That link demonstrates a file that can be loaded by the x86 Linux kernel can be trimmed down. It ends up no longer an ELF file, but the x86 Linux kernel will lo

That link demonstrates a file that can be loaded by the x86 Linux kernel can be trimmed down. It ends up no longer an ELF file, but the x86 Linux kernel will load it as if it is one. The whole article confuses the question of "what will a 32-bit x86 Linux kernel load?" with "what is the smallest ELF file I can make?"