From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: amolk@ishoni.com (Amol Kumar Lad)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gzip compression of vmlinux
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:19:44 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210211519.g9LFJiLt004996@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035243705.2202.3.camel@amol.in.ishoni.com> from "Amol Kumar Lad" at Oct 21, 2002 07:41:44 PM
> Currently we use gzip to compress vmlinux ( and finally form bzImage).
> I am planning to replace it with bzip2 . Should I go ahead with it ?
> Will it find its place in the latest kernel ?
> We save some 35k of compressed bzImage using bzip2
There was a discussion about using bzip2 on this list a few months
ago:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.1/0467.html
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-21 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-21 23:41 Amol Kumar Lad
2002-10-21 14:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-21 14:51 ` Mark Robson
2002-10-21 15:19 ` jbradford [this message]
2002-10-24 7:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
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