From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com (Albin Tonnerre) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:27:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: Add support for LZMA-compressed kernel images In-Reply-To: <1268335467-24223-1-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> References: <1258729323-16318-1-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> <1268335467-24223-1-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20100311192752.GI4585@pc-ran3241> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:24 +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote : > This patch allows using a kernel image compressed with LZMA on ARM. > Extracting the image is fairly slow, but it might be useful on machines > with a very limited amount of storage, as the size benefit is quite > significant: > Gzip: Data Size: 1586352 Bytes = 1549.17 kB = 1.51 MB > LZMA: Data Size: 2135916 Bytes = 2085.86 kB = 2.04 MB Meh. That should of course be: LZMA ... 1.51MB Gzip ... 2.04MB -- Albin Tonnerre, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com