Re: bzip2 support against 2.4.18

[Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:36:41AM +0200, Christian Ludwig wrote:
> On 11.07.2001 - 19:21 Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > How about bz2Image, or, more natural in my mind, bz2linux.
> bzImage stands for "big zipped Image". Zipped, in this case, means that it
> is gzipped. Perhaps Linus never wants to support other compression formats
> for the kernel.

> Sure "bz2bzImage" is a bit ugly. I personally would prefer bzImage.bz2,
> although it is some kind of self-extracting executable, thus *.bz2 is also
> not correct. But it would imply better which sort of compression you are
> using. But that also means that the standard kernel has to be called
> "bzImage.gz". I did not want to mess up the standard names...

I would suggest keeping bzImage as the actual kernel name, and the
compression format to be a CONFIG parameter. This leaves all the
installation notes correct. As the executable is self-extracting,
there is no need for the type to be specified outside of the image.

> But the question is: who is responsible for all those naming conventions?
> Does anyone has an idea?

Not me... probably Linus... :-)

mark

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