From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g24MXkQ00892 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:33:46 -0800 Received: from post.webmailer.de (natpost.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g24MXh900889 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:33:43 -0800 Received: from excalibur.cologne.de (pD9E40956.dip.t-dialin.net [217.228.9.86]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA15181 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:33:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from karsten by excalibur.cologne.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16i03B-00005J-00 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 22:31:17 +0100 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:31:17 +0100 From: Karsten Merker To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Compressed images? Message-ID: <20020304223117.B254@excalibur.cologne.de> Mail-Followup-To: Karsten Merker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com References: <20020304120803.A1247@ayrnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020304120803.A1247@ayrnetworks.com>; from wjhun@ayrnetworks.com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:03PM -0800 X-No-Archive: yes Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:03PM -0800, William Jhun wrote: > Should we be placing our boot image compression stuff in our > platform-specific directory? Are most MIPS-based Linux platforms not > using compressed images? I cannot speak for "most" platforms, but at least the DECstations and the SGI IP22 (Indy and Indigo2) can only boot uncompressed images currently, so it does not make sense to build compressed images for them. Regards, Karsten -- #include Nach Paragraph 28 Abs. 3 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung oder Uebermittlung meiner Daten fuer Werbezwecke oder fuer die Markt- oder Meinungsforschung.