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Subject: gzip compression of vmlinux
From: Amol Kumar Lad <amolk@ishoni.com>
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Hi,
 Currently we use gzip to compress vmlinux ( and finally form bzImage).
I am planning to replace it with bzip2 . Should I go ahead with it ?
Will it find its place in the latest kernel ? 
We save some 35k of compressed bzImage using bzip2

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Thanks
Amol




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