linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/1] x86: boot: support minigzip bzImage compression

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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:47:38 +0000
From:	"Boie, Andrew P" <andrew.p.boie@...el.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"mmarek@...e.cz" <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] x86: boot: support minigzip bzImage compression

> From: Guenter Roeck [linux@...ck-us.net]
> Or just change the build system to have /bin/gzip point to minigzip if so
> desired. I have done the same to replace it with pigz.
> Debian/Ubuntu provides the update-alternatives command for that
> purpose. If that is not available, just hard-link it.

Android minigzip and gzip unfortunately don't have the same command line syntax. Before I wrote this patch I had a horrible hack in place involving a shell script named "gzip" that called minigzip internally.

Andrew--
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