Re: gzip compression of vmlinux

jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:19:44 +0100 (BST)

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> 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

There was a discussion about using bzip2 on this list a few months
ago:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.1/0467.html

John.
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