Re: About the decompression of compressed kernel image

[Andreas Schwab]

Zhan Rongkai <zhanrk2000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>     NOTE: The two commands: "gzip -f -9
> arch/$(ARCH)/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin' and
>     'gzip -f -9 <
> arch/$(ARCH)/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin >
> arch/$(ARCH)/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz' ouput two
> copies of 
>     'vmlinux.bin.gz' with different file size. Is it
> ok? Why?

Because the former puts the original name into the output, the latter
can't.

Andreas.

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