From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Creating grub/grub2/grldr.mbr bootrom with makerom
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:06:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712220906.33867.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071221190450.GA23118@thorin>
On Friday 21 December 2007 20:04, Robert Millan wrote:
> How well does compression work for GRUB 2 ? core.img is already compressed
> (with lzo); if LZMA makes better results perhaps it'd be a good idea to
> switch.
It's not that simple. LZO was chosen instead of gzip, because of the size
requirement on PC. To preserve safety, we need to keep the core part less
than 31.5KB (63 sectors).
The size is the sum of non-compressable bootstrap code, decompression code and
compressed code + data. When I made an experiment in PUPA, although gzip had
a better compression ratio, due to the decompression code size, LZO won.
I don't know precisely, but I suspect that decompression code for LZMA would
be slightly larger than gzip's (IIRC, a range coder is likely to require more
code and data). So I don't expect that LZMA can replace the current usage of
LZO in normal PC so easily.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-22 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-21 18:50 Creating grub/grub2/grldr.mbr bootrom with makerom Bean
2007-12-21 19:04 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-22 3:57 ` Bean
2007-12-22 8:06 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2007-12-22 9:03 ` Bean
2007-12-22 9:47 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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