Kernel build question

[John Wendel]

Just exploring the filesystem and noticed something I'm curious
about.

Could someone explain the reason for storing the uncompressed
kernel (vmlinux) in the lib/modules/<kernel.version> directory?

What uses this kernel?

I noticed that my custom kernel, installed by "make install"
didn't put a copy of vmlinux in the modules directory. Should I
do it?

Thanks.

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John Wendel