Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:59:43 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | 2.2.13 pre18 less compression? |
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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 -- Custom driver development | Never worry about theory as long Open source programming | as the machinery does what it's | supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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