Re: Advantages of zImage vs. bzImage for 2.2.x kernel? (not bzip2)

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:25:55 -0500

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> zImage. The main advantage, I guess, is that in a bzImage the kernel
> is compressed with bzip, which can compress things tighter than gzip

No no no. :)
If it used bzip, it would need megabytes to decompress the image.
bzImage still uses gzip.

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