Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:14:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:14:39 -0400 Received: from barbados.bluemug.com ([63.195.182.101]:27401 "EHLO barbados.bluemug.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:14:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:16:21 -0700 To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Christian Ludwig , Ville Herva , Linux Kernel Mailinglist Subject: Re: bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Message-ID: <20020713051621.GA9581@bluemug.com> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Phillips , Christian Ludwig , Ville Herva , Linux Kernel Mailinglist References: <003d01c22819$ba1818b0$1c6fa8c0@hyper> <20020711062832.GU1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <002601c228ab$86b235e0$1c6fa8c0@hyper> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-ID: 5C09BB33 X-PGP-Fingerprint: C518 67A5 F5C5 C784 A196 B480 5C97 3BBD 5C09 BB33 From: Mike Touloumtzis Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 20 On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:22:29PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:21, Christian Ludwig wrote: > > Putting in another 4MB into that machine (thus it has 8MB now), made the > > kernel boot, but ramdisk decompression failed. All in all you will need at > > least 12MB to boot correctly, if you are using a bz2bzImage of about 700kB > > and a 2MB compressed ramdisk image. > > Good stuff, but why take this opportunity to make an ugly name even uglier? > How about bz2Image, or, more natural in my mind, bz2linux. Dare I say it... "linux.bz2"? Why are Linux images so special? After all, the first Unix kernel images were just called "unix". cheerfully, miket - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/