Messages in this thread | | | From | Lucas De Marchi <> | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:07:14 -0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules |
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote: > 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.
It could be when it was added, but it's not anymore.
Really, I wouldn't like the discussion to be whether having compressed modules is good or not, but rather if it's good to have a install rule that does all the things the right way and only once, given people *are using* compressed modules.
Lucas De Marchi
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