Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:27:37 -0600 | From | Frank Sorenson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] lzma support: lzma compressed kernel image |
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Christian Leber wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:10:25PM -0600, Frank Sorenson wrote: >>patches appear to work as advertised. > > I don't like the moving of the initrd, but i don't know another way to > get it working otherwise. > >>lzma reduced my kernel by >>approximately 25%, so I'd say it looks promising. > > 25%? i would have expected a smaller saving
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2959194 Jun 12 14:28 vmlinuz-2.6.12-rc6-fs1 - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2192674 Jun 13 21:47 vmlinuz-2.6.12-rc6-fs2
> How to obtain should be enough, i'll add it.
Great, thanks.
>>- - Detect that the lzma application isn't present, and fall back to gzip >>(with a warning) if lzma fails. > > No. > If you select lzma you have to have it, you also don't download a > compiler when somebody tries to compile the kernel without a compiler.
Uhm, no, I wasn't saying that. Just suggesting a simple failsafe. It's not important.
>>- - If we can embed the decompressor into the boot-time kernel, can't we >>put a compressor into the kernel source, and avoid the need for the >>external program? > > How do think will people react to a hundreds of kb sized C++ patch that > is not - i repeat - NOT in proper coding style?
I wasn't suggesting that we include the entire source code as-is. Just that if we can include the decompressor in < 45K of code, surely the compression could be included easily. Again, it's not very important. Giving enough information to build and run is most important.
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