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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:29:13 +0200 From: "Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com> To: "Alain Knaff" <alain@...ff.lu> Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds Hello, a small remark on the non-code parts: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu> wrote: > > compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both > compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Moreover, lzma's > decompresses faster than gzip. > versus > +config KERNEL_GZIP > + bool "Gzip" > + help > + The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is > + the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both > + compression and decompression) is the fastest. > + This seems contradictionary information. However, I welcome more compression options in kernel and filesystem land, so I'm very interested in this patch. Recently, on the filesystem side there seems to be some effort to modularize the decompressors, instead of the use of #ifdef's. The other architectures (especially used in embedded) need to hook in on this, getting rid of the many out-of-tree patches for kernel/fs decompression. Regards, -- Leon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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