kernel presentation at ILUG on Sat.
Hal Duston
hduston at speedscript.com
Mon May 5 21:41:16 CDT 2003
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 15:53, JD Runyan wrote:
> A quick checking of the kernel.org mailing list archives yields that I am both
> wrong and right. bzImage can use almost any compression you have available
> to you, and if gzip is it it uses the maximum compression gzip offers.
Can you provide a citation for this? All my research indicates that the
only compression the kernel supports is gzip. Gzip is hard coded in
arch/i386/boot/compress/Makefile. The only architecture that I could
find that appears to support bzip2 is the m68k architecture in
arch/m68k/Makefile .
--
Hal
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