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Keep me CC. Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 09:02:46PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: > > Is it any smaller than a UPX'd kernel? (I think you need the beta version. > > I know the upx-ucl in debian won't compress but upx-ucl-beta will if you > > force). I got a significant reduction using it. > > It's not better at all, but unfortunately, UPX cannot compress a kernel which > embeds a big initramfs. The problem is that the compressed initramfs is > embedded into vmlinux, which is then compressed into bzImage, and UPX only > replaces the bzImage compression. > > May be it would work if we did not compress the initramfs before including > it into the vmlinux. My initramfs is passed via initrd so that I can change any aspect of it with out recompiling the kernel (or maybe i could use a better understanding of initramfs) I compared bzImage to bupxImage and the savings I got was around 50kb difference IIRC. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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