From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261345AbTJRFaX (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:30:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261346AbTJRFaX (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:30:23 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-245-184.webone.com.au ([210.9.245.184]:35847 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261345AbTJRFaW (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:30:22 -0400 Message-ID: <3F90CFE5.5000801@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:30:13 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rob@landley.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch? References: <200310180018.21818.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200310180018.21818.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rob Landley wrote: >I just rewrote bunzip2 for busybox in about 500 lines of C (and a good chunk >of that's comments), which comiles to a bit under 7k, and I was thinking of >redoing the bunzip-the-kernel patch with my new bunzip code, but I can't find >the patch. Anybody got a URL to it? > >The most recent one I could find was kerneltrap's 404-error link to >http://chrissicool.piranho.com/patch-2.4.x-bzip2-i386 > This came up on the list a while back. IIRC the conclusion was that runtime memory usage and speed, and not so significant compression improvement over gzip.