From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261509AbTJSKqY (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 06:46:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261538AbTJSKqY (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 06:46:24 -0400 Received: from mout2.freenet.de ([194.97.50.155]:1493 "EHLO mout2.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261509AbTJSKqX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 06:46:23 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch? Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:45:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200310180018.21818.rob@landley.net> <1066477155.5606.34.camel@sonja> <3F91E01C.4090507@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3F91E01C.4090507@cyberone.com.au> Cc: Daniel Egger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310191245.55961.mbuesch@freenet.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kmtjoxoigfggmSgRAqNAAJ9isDDlHbCBTWleCMMtd7/AtaogBACcDu8o tg6ggQ+w3nyn933Po7tRJ5I= =jft8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----