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From: Jörn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds
Date: Monday, September 8, 2008 - 6:14 am

On Sun, 7 September 2008 01:17:55 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

Less, actually.  Iirc gzip takes about 280k for compression and
somewhere below 100k for decompression with the kernel runtime zlib.
The various copies that unpack kernels at boottime may be worse - they
are certainly rather old copies of zlib and haven't seen much
maintenance since.

Jörn

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[PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds, Alain Knaff, (Sat Sep 6, 2:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Leon Woestenberg, (Sat Sep 6, 3:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Alain Knaff, (Sat Sep 6, 3:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Sat Sep 6, 8:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Steven Noonan, (Sat Sep 6, 9:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Sat Sep 6, 9:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Willy Tarreau, (Sat Sep 6, 10:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Rob Landley, (Sat Sep 6, 11:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 12:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 12:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Sep 7, 1:03 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 1:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 2:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Sep 7, 9:30 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Sep 8, 1:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Jörn, (Mon Sep 8, 6:14 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Rob Landley, (Sun Sep 14, 6:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Frans Meulenbroeks, (Mon Sep 15, 5:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Bill Davidsen, (Mon Sep 15, 10:13 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Steven Noonan, (Mon Sep 15, 10:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and in ..., Leon Woestenberg, (Fri Sep 26, 11:53 am)