Re: Disabling support for some IXP4xx machines
* John Reiser <vendor@BitWagon.com> [2008-08-23 13:16]:
> Kernels as recent as vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-ixp4xx (1365048 bytes) still use
> gzip. Changing to upx/nrv with filtering of relative subroutine call
> instructions would save an additional 10% in size, and would boot faster.
> Changing to lzma with filtering would save an additional 20% in size,
> at the cost of a couple seconds longer boot. Consult the archives of
> [nslu2-developer] in June and July 2006 (2 years ago) for topics UPX
> and lzma, and see http://bitwagon.com/LzmaFlow/LzmaFlow.html .
Is this supported in the mainline kernel? (The next question is
whether our kernel build system copes with it.)
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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