linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels

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Date:	Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:36:41 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@...e-electrons.com>,
	sam@...nborg.org, linux@....linux.org.uk, alain@...ff.lu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels

On 08/04/2009 04:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 0.24 seconds booting speedup sounds pretty thin.  Adding a new
> decompression format will introduce more configuration/build/deployment
> complexities.  How do we justify this?
> 

Keep in mind this may be out of a 3-5 second boot budget.

	-hpa
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