gzip compression of vmlinux

Amol Kumar Lad (amolk@ishoni.com)
21 Oct 2002 19:41:44 -0400

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Hi,
Currently we use gzip to compress vmlinux ( and finally form bzImage).
I am planning to replace it with bzip2 . Should I go ahead with it ?
Will it find its place in the latest kernel ?
We save some 35k of compressed bzImage using bzip2

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Thanks
Amol

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