Re: upx

[tal@libranet.com (Tal Danzig)]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:23:18PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Upx is an executable file compressor. The interesting thing in relation
> to the b-f or d-i is that it can compress bzimage linux kernels. The
> kernel is still bootable, and a coworker shaved 100k off the size of an
> existing bzimage (even though it was already compressed).

So this boots with any standard bootloader? (ie: lilo, syslinux, loadlin)
I suppose that this could obliviate (at least for i386) the need for the various kernel flavors.

- Tal

> 
> http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
> 
> (i386 specific though for now.)
> 
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