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To: Zhan Rongkai <zhanrk2000@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: About the decompression of compressed kernel image
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:31:27 +0200
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Zhan Rongkai <zhanrk2000@yahoo.com.au> writes:

>     NOTE: The two commands: "gzip -f -9
> arch/$(ARCH)/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin' and
>     'gzip -f -9 <
> arch/$(ARCH)/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin >
> arch/$(ARCH)/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz' ouput two
> copies of 
>     'vmlinux.bin.gz' with different file size. Is it
> ok? Why?

Because the former puts the original name into the output, the latter
can't.

Andreas.

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