From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:43:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:43:50 -0400 Received: from mailhost.idcomm.com ([207.40.196.14]:37252 "EHLO mailhost.idcomm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:43:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3B292235.D81F3637@idcomm.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:44:37 -0600 From: "D. Stimits" Reply-To: stimits@idcomm.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-pre1-xfs-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bzDisk compression Q; boot debug Q In-Reply-To: <6B1DF6EEBA51D31182F200902740436802678F59@mail-in.comverse-in.com> <3B2869F9.D0AE17CB@idcomm.com> <3B28ADB3.7CE09FC3@internet-factory.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost.localdomain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Holger Lubitz wrote: > > "D. Stimits" proclaimed: > > down to 1.44 MB. But then it would also have to be self-extracting, > > which complicates it, so I'm wondering how effective this current > > compression is, and if a more bzip2-like system would be beneficial as > > kernels get larger? > > bzip2 has pretty large memory requirements, consuming up to 8 MB in > addition to the data being uncompressed. > Although thats less of an issue now than it was some years ago, i still > doubt that the kernel is going to be bzip2 compressed any time soon. > > if you're looking for better compression, you might want to examine upx > (http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html). The kernel image > compression is still experimental, but already usable. kernels tend to > get ~100 K smaller compared to the usual gzip compressed bzImage. Interesting stuff...and the license is non-commercial as well. D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com > > Holger > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/