Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:25:03 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kconfig: update compression algorithm info |
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On 04/18/2012 10:09 AM, Lasse Collin wrote: > > I think it is still safe to say that gzip and LZO are better than > bzip2, XZ, or LZMA for compressing a kernel that will be loaded from a > normal hard disk. It would be unusual if reading the disk was so slow > that e.g. XZ would make the booting faster than gzip. >
Not really, because the boot loader is dependent on the firmware, which can sometimes be infernally stupid.
-hpa
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