Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?

[Nick Piggin]

Rob Landley wrote:

> I just rewrote bunzip2 for busybox in about 500 lines of C (and a good chunk 
> of that's comments), which comiles to a bit under 7k, and I was thinking of 
> redoing the bunzip-the-kernel patch with my new bunzip code, but I can't find 
> the patch.  Anybody got a URL to it?
>
> The most recent one I could find was kerneltrap's 404-error link to 
> http://chrissicool.piranho.com/patch-2.4.x-bzip2-i386


This came up on the list a while back. IIRC the conclusion was that
runtime memory usage and speed, and not so significant compression
improvement over gzip.


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