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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:31:28 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apiszcz@...arrain.com
Subject: Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> writes:

> I'm with Al on this. 50 Mb for decompression?
> Embedded and small device folks will not love this, I'm sure.

How often do you unpack the kernel sources on an embedded device? :)

Andreas.

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