From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K91ct-00082j-4R for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:39:19 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K91cq-00081x-VD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:39:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K91cp-00081Z-Tw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:39:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56426 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K91cp-00081W-PT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:39:15 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:36700) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K91cp-00082P-5T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:39:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K91aQ-0006zZ-9s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:36:46 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K91cR-0006hr-3j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:38:51 +0200 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:38:51 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080618173851.GC25553@thorin> References: <1213713543.6330.24.camel@localhost> <1213723385.6330.35.camel@localhost> <1213758847.6330.59.camel@localhost> <1213760967.2940.8.camel@rd> <1213789226.7112.29.camel@localhost> <1213796013.7112.34.camel@localhost> <485946C9.5070707@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <485946C9.5070707@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:39:17 -0000 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:32:57PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > if it's not too much work to maintain multiple decompression algorithms, > maybe we can have grub-install pick the weakest compression that still > shrinks the image enough to fit? Then only "complicated" setups will > need LZMA's memory excesses. (Might not be worth the effort though.) I hope we can avoid having to do this. The install scripts are complex enough already... -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)