Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:38:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:37:54 -0500 Received: from mail3.teleport.com ([192.108.254.31]:45002 "HELO mail3.teleport.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:37:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3A412C8D.59DDD9F2@BitWagon.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:02:53 -0800 From: John Reiser Organization: - X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.5-15 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: tighter compression for x86 kernels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86. Additional space savings of about 15% have been seen using "upx --best vmlinuz" (example: 617431 ==> 525099, saving 92332 bytes). Both source (GPLv2) and pre-compiled binary for x86 are available. [I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, so CC: or mail me if appropriate.] -- John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/