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Subject2.2.13 pre18 less compression?
Why does 2.2.13 pre18 reduce the gzip compression factor?  Does this
overflow a boot loader buffer or something like that?

Thanks,

Jeff




--- linux.vanilla/arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile Mon Jul 20
18:05:15 1998
+++ linux.13p18/arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile Thu Sep 23
14:04:38 1999
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
tmppiggy=_tmp_$$$$piggy; \
rm -f $$tmppiggy $$tmppiggy.gz $$tmppiggy.lnk; \
$(OBJCOPY) $(SYSTEM) $$tmppiggy; \
- gzip -f -9 < $$tmppiggy > $$tmppiggy.gz; \
+ gzip -f -3 < $$tmppiggy > $$tmppiggy.gz; \
echo "SECTIONS { .data : { input_len = .; LONG(input_data_end -
input_data) input_data = .; *(.data) input_data_end = .; }}" >
$$tmppiggy.lnk; \
$(LD) -m elf_i386 -r -o piggy.o -b binary $$tmppiggy.gz -b
elf32-i386 -T $$tmppiggy.lnk; \
rm -f $$tmppiggy $$tmppiggy.gz $$tmppiggy.lnk
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