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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Compressed kernels
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120210257.GA758@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FBCDBF7.7000307@embeddededge.com>

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:21:27AM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:21:27 -0500
> From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
> To: Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com
> CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Subject: Re: Compressed kernels
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
> 
> Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com wrote:
> 
> >I'm running a 2.4.21 kernel tree, and would like to have kernel
> >compression. I wondered if this has gone back into the latest versions yet?
> 
> If you apply the 'zImage' patch from Pete's ftp directory (look in past
> e-mails for this discussion) you will see what I have done for a few of
> the boards I'm using.  It's quite trivial to add new boards to get
> this feature.  I'm still working on the method of attaching the
> compressed initrd to the same image, which I find quite useful for
> embedded applications.

Compressed kernels seem to be fairly high on everybody's list.  Due to
size limits of some boatloaders and flash memory being always too small
and too expensive I guess there would also be some interest in bzip2
support.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-20 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-20  9:10 Compressed kernels Colin.Helliwell
2003-11-20 15:21 ` Dan Malek
2003-11-20 21:02   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2003-11-20 21:42     ` Dan Malek
2003-11-20 22:33     ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-11-20 22:50       ` Dan Malek
2003-11-25 23:44         ` Ralf Baechle
2003-11-22  2:41 ` Ralf Baechle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-31  8:35 Compressed Kernels JP Foster
2005-03-31  8:42 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-03-31 16:24   ` Pete Popov
2005-04-01  9:05     ` JP

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