In message <20031120210257.GA758@linux-mips.org> you wrote: > > 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. Well, instead of doing this in the Linux kernel, you could also do it in the boot loader. U-Boot supports both gzip and bzip2 decom- pression. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de If programming was easy, they wouldn't need something as complicated as a human being to do it, now would they? - L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz, _Programming Perl_