Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?

[Michael Buesch]

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On Sunday 19 October 2003 02:51, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Daniel Egger wrote:
> >I quick test with a PowerPC kernel and the normal vmlinux image reveals
> >that this is nonsense.
> >
> >-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2766490 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux
> >-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1149410 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux.gz
> >-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1062999 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux.bz2
> >
> >This is a 86411 bytes or 8.1% reduction, seems significant to me...
>
> Sure, it might be worth it in some cases. I didn't mean improvement
> wasn't measurable at all.

What about making it configurable? If someone want's bzip2
and if he want's to wait longer to boot, (s)he may
compile bzip2 support.
If someone dislikes it, (s)he may use gzip.

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Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]
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