> 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
You might also want to take a look at upx. It's compressor
is roughly of the same quality as gzip, but it's decompresser
is only a couple of hundred bytes. I don't know which will
buy you more in practice. I smaller decompresser, or a larger
decompresser with that compresses a little smaller. Or possibly
you just want to pass -9 to gzip?
Eric
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