Re: Disabling support for some IXP4xx machines

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* John Reiser <vendor@BitWagon.com> [2008-08-24 20:12]:
> More sizes for vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-ixp4xx, from actual compression tests:
>    1365048  existing file in /boot
>    1351528  gzip payload
>    2841208  uncompressed gzip payload
>    1256640  upx/nrv payload
>    1218888  upx/nrv payload after filter (relative subroutine call)
>    1018940  upx/lzma payload
>     978628  upx/lzma payload after filter (relative subroutine call)

Those figures are pretty impressive, but I'd rather avoid using
compression tools for which our infrastructure doesn't have any
support.  At the moment, the image still fits into flash, so there's
no immediate reason to do anything.  However, I'll keep upx into mind
because I'm sure we'll run into more serious space problems in the
future.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/