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To: "Christian Ludwig" <cl81@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: bzip2 support against 2.4.18 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Christian Ludwig" <cl81@gmx.net> 
   of "Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:32:47 +0200." <003f01c2297e$b3e395d0$1c6fa8c0@hyper> 
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:31:56 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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"Christian Ludwig" <cl81@gmx.net> said:

[...]

> Surely it is better not to have a capital letter. My idea to have that 'bz2'
> in the name was that you could also have some more kernel compression
> algorithms some day. For all of these you would need new names. To make it
> at least a little bit easier there should be that 'bz2' in the name. So
> 'bz2linux' would be a goal. But if we do this we also could change 'bzImage'
> to 'gzlinux'.

What for? The kernel is compressed and unzips itself on boot, which exact
compression mechanism is used is completely irrelevant to the booter, so it
has no place in the name.

Also, bzip2 is not used because it needs around 1MiB for buffers when
uncompressing, RAM which just isn't there when booting (it has to work in
the mythical PC 640KiB, IIRC). Or am I missing something here?
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