Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:30:07 +0100 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules |
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On 29.12.2011 18:35, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > The operation that is used most of the time is to load modules. The > reason for having modules gzipped is the same one as for kernel image:
The reason for having the kernel compressed is that the x86 bootloader reads the kernel (and initrd) using bios calls. That's not the case for modules.
Michal
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