Re: [PATCH,RFC 2.6.9-rc1 2/2] zlib_inflate: Add __BOOTER__ around zlib_inflate_trees_fixed(...)

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 20:28:02 EST


Tom Rini writes:

> This is the second part of what I found. zlib_inflate_trees_fixed(...)
> isn't called in decompressing a kernel. Dropping this, and the call to

I think it is just luck that gzip hasn't used the fixed table in
compressing the kernel. I don't think we have any guarantee that gzip
won't use the fixed table.

Just out of interest, how big is a bzip2 decompressor?

Regards,
Paul.
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