From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Amol Kumar Lad <amolk@ishoni.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gzip compression of vmlinux
Date: 24 Oct 2002 01:58:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d6q0s1xg.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035243705.2202.3.camel@amol.in.ishoni.com>
Amol Kumar Lad <amolk@ishoni.com> writes:
> Hi,
> 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
You might also want to take a look at upx. It's compressor
is roughly of the same quality as gzip, but it's decompresser
is only a couple of hundred bytes. I don't know which will
buy you more in practice. I smaller decompresser, or a larger
decompresser with that compresses a little smaller. Or possibly
you just want to pass -9 to gzip?
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-24 7:54 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
2002-10-24 7:58 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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