From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:30:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFD92AF.7000402@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMOw1v6GhA+B2oXcVK4YZULb6kq=-NFTv-=-4eYB0ukZ9acP-w@mail.gmail.com>
On 29.12.2011 18:35, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> The operation that is used most of the time is to load modules. The
> reason for having modules gzipped is the same one as for kernel image:
The reason for having the kernel compressed is that the x86 bootloader
reads the kernel (and initrd) using bios calls. That's not the case for
modules.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-30 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 15:50 [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules Lucas De Marchi
2011-12-29 15:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: add target to install xz modules Lucas De Marchi
2011-12-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules Michal Marek
2011-12-29 16:55 ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-12-29 17:05 ` Michal Marek
2011-12-29 17:35 ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-12-30 10:30 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2011-12-30 14:07 ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-12-29 17:21 ` Dave Jones
2011-12-30 10:23 ` Michal Marek
2011-12-30 15:37 ` Dave Jones
2011-12-30 16:40 ` Lucas De Marchi
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