On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:21:27AM -0500, Dan Malek wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:21:27 -0500 > From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com> > To: Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com > CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org > Subject: Re: Compressed kernels > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com wrote: > > >I'm running a 2.4.21 kernel tree, and would like to have kernel > >compression. I wondered if this has gone back into the latest versions yet? > > If you apply the 'zImage' patch from Pete's ftp directory (look in past > e-mails for this discussion) you will see what I have done for a few of > the boards I'm using. It's quite trivial to add new boards to get > this feature. I'm still working on the method of attaching the > compressed initrd to the same image, which I find quite useful for > embedded applications. Compressed kernels seem to be fairly high on everybody's list. Due to size limits of some boatloaders and flash memory being always too small and too expensive I guess there would also be some interest in bzip2 support. Ralf
