port-amd64/58364: x86 kernels have nearly two megabytes of zero padding at the start

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>Number:         58364
>Category:       port-amd64
>Synopsis:       x86 kernels have nearly two megabytes of zero padding at the start
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-amd64-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 25 00:05:00 +0000 2024
>Originator:     Taylor R Campbell
>Release:        current, 10, 9, ...
>Organization:
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze NetBSD Foundation
>Environment:
>Description:
$ hexdump -C < netbsd | head -15
00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
00000010  02 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00  00 e0 20 80 ff ff ff ff  |..>....... .....|
00000020  40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  e0 27 c3 01 00 00 00 00  |@........'......|
00000030  00 00 00 00 40 00 38 00  02 00 40 00 22 00 21 00  |....@.8...@.".!.|
00000040  01 00 00 00 05 00 00 00  00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00  |.......... .....|
00000050  00 00 20 80 ff ff ff ff  00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00  |.. ....... .....|
00000060  08 f4 4a 01 00 00 00 00  08 f4 4a 01 00 00 00 00  |..J.......J.....|
00000070  00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00  01 00 00 00 06 00 00 00  |.. .............|
00000080  00 00 80 01 00 00 00 00  00 00 80 81 ff ff ff ff  |................|
00000090  00 00 80 01 00 00 00 00  80 21 0c 00 00 00 00 00  |.........!......|
000000a0  00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00  |.. ....... .....|
000000b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00200000  0f 01 f8 48 a3 08 00 00  00 00 ff ff ff 48 a1 10  |...H.........H..|
00200010  00 00 00 00 ff ff ff 48  c7 40 f8 3f 00 00 00 48  |.......H.@.?...H|

Note the * padding between 0xb0 and 0x200000, presumably some misguided unintentional alignment.

Not really a problem if you always store compressed kernels, but it's rather silly to store this uncompressed.
>How-To-Repeat:
build amd64 or i386 kernels
>Fix:
Yes, please!