> On Fri, 29 May 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> > I am not sure what is meant by "gzip can be used in place."
>
> With gzip, you can malloc a piece of memory the size of the uncompressed image
> and load the compressed image there. You don't need to do
> malloc(uncompressed_size) and malloc(compressed_size).
and bzip2 needs even more memory to uncompress! from `man bzip2'
Decompression: 100k + ( 5 x block size ), or
100k + ( 2.5 x block size )
so you'd need at least 350k (with 2.5 x block size because of option --small)
for `-1' compression and 2350k for a '-9' kernel image!
Harald
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