From: Mike Touloumtzis <miket@bluemug.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Christian Ludwig <cl81@gmx.net>,
Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>,
Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bzip2 support against 2.4.18
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:16:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020713051621.GA9581@bluemug.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17SheA-0002Uh-00@starship>
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:22:29PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:21, Christian Ludwig wrote:
> > Putting in another 4MB into that machine (thus it has 8MB now), made the
> > kernel boot, but ramdisk decompression failed. All in all you will need at
> > least 12MB to boot correctly, if you are using a bz2bzImage of about 700kB
> > and a 2MB compressed ramdisk image.
>
> Good stuff, but why take this opportunity to make an ugly name even uglier?
> How about bz2Image, or, more natural in my mind, bz2linux.
Dare I say it... "linux.bz2"? Why are Linux images so special?
After all, the first Unix kernel images were just called "unix".
cheerfully,
miket
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-13 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-10 13:57 bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Christian Ludwig
2002-07-10 15:54 ` bzip2 patent status query jbradford
2002-07-10 16:48 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-10 17:37 ` jbradford
2002-07-10 17:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 17:26 ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-10 21:11 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-12 7:04 ` Christian Ludwig
[not found] ` <20020711062832.GU1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
2002-07-11 7:21 ` bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Christian Ludwig
2002-07-11 17:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 6:36 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 7:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 8:32 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 8:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 10:12 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 12:01 ` jw schultz
2002-07-12 14:25 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-12 14:49 ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-15 21:31 ` Horst von Brand
2002-07-16 12:01 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-12 12:37 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-13 13:56 ` john slee
2002-07-13 14:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 15:02 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-07-13 14:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-12 12:33 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-12 13:05 ` jbradford
2002-07-12 13:24 ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-12 13:49 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 14:21 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-15 6:28 ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-15 12:17 ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-16 8:28 ` [PATCH] bzip2 compression for kernel 2.4 and ramdisk Christian Ludwig
2002-07-13 5:16 ` Mike Touloumtzis [this message]
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