I don't think it matters much at all.
Since the kernel already has decompression code, you might be able to
have both with very little extra code.
> Select yes for CONFIG_PROC_CONFIG and rebuild. Adds a cloneconfig build
> target that unzips /proc/config.gz and does the equivalent of oldconfig.
That looks useful.
> Note this patch includes a program called bin2c in scripts/ that I think
> should eventually replace the poorly named (and located) bin2hex scripts
> in the sound driver directory.
I hate to see binary data transformed into text and compiled back into
binary data. We have an alternative:
"gnu ld can do that, if you write an appropriate .lds file. You could
get my Dancing Makefiles and take a look at the end stage of kernel
builds to see an example." -- Michael Chastain, posting last year
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