From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262237AbTJSV1S (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:27:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262202AbTJSV1S (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:27:18 -0400 Received: from mout2.freenet.de ([194.97.50.155]:36508 "EHLO mout2.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262237AbTJSV1Q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:27:16 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch? Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:27:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200310180018.21818.rob@landley.net> <200310191245.55961.mbuesch@freenet.de> <20031019210453.GE16761@alpha.home.local> In-Reply-To: <20031019210453.GE16761@alpha.home.local> Cc: Nick Piggin , 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: <200310192327.10756.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 23:04, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I don't know if people have already tested LZO and NRV (used in UPX). > Perhaps LZO might already be a little better than gzip, while faster and > with less code. NRV is surely better, but is not open source IIRC. Perhaps > Markus would agree to release a free NRV decompressor if asked kindly ? If NRV is closed source (I don't know), then we would need a free compressor _and_ a free decompressor. Because I don't think we should go and compile (compress) the kernel image with some closed-source software. 8-) > Regards, > Willy - -- Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kwGuoxoigfggmSgRArzRAJ4rNgBumLFlQ9q+OincNpxmL2uKaQCePZi2 DFXJPIOdcY4IoAivT6gBmOg= =uOq6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----