Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds

["Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>]

Hello,

a small remark on the non-code parts:

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> wrote:
>
> compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
> compressors give smaller sizes than gzip.  Moreover, lzma's
> decompresses faster than gzip.
>
versus

> +config KERNEL_GZIP
> +       bool "Gzip"
> +       help
> +         The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
> +        the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
> +        compression and decompression) is the fastest.
> +

This seems contradictionary information.

However, I welcome more compression options in kernel and filesystem
land, so I'm very interested in this patch.
Recently, on the filesystem side there seems to be some effort to
modularize the decompressors, instead of the use of #ifdef's.

The other architectures (especially used in embedded) need to hook in
on this, getting rid of the many out-of-tree patches for kernel/fs
decompression.

Regards,
-- 
Leon