[Q] bzip instead of gzip compression in rd/bootup?

From: Ph. Marek (marek@mail.bmlv.gv.at)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 09:03:21 EST


Hi everybody,

Looking through the kernel sources I found (in drivers/block/rd.c) that currently only gzip is supported for the compressed ram fs.

Is there any intend to change/extend that to bzip2? for use in floppy boot disks with attached compressed rd it would be better.

And, 2nd part: is it possible to get the kernel bzip2 compressed?? could save some space too.

as there are some discussions about leaving zImage and moving to bzImage this could be a chance to change that too.

regards,

phil

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