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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: gzip compression of vmlinux
To: amolk@ishoni.com (Amol Kumar Lad)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:19:44 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <1035243705.2202.3.camel@amol.in.ishoni.com> from "Amol Kumar Lad" at Oct 21, 2002 07:41:44 PM
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>  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

There was a discussion about using bzip2 on this list a few months
ago:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.1/0467.html

John.
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