> Initrd.img/ramdisk.gz – 2425607
Just curious: Can you install the package advancecomp and run on that
ramdisk the command:
advdef -z -4 ramdisk.gz
I've different files, but here goes. Less by 127 kB:
3385295 3254732 96% initrd.img-3.8.3-iop32x
and report back the results? Just to be extra safe, you may want to test the
recompressed image with:
gzip -t ramdisk.gz
Looks fine.
If the image gets smaller, then you probably will have some space to put one
binary or another in it, so that said image will be more useful.
> Vmlinuz/zImage – 1524976
I don't know how, but it would be nice to see how much improvement one would
get from doing the same trick as above.
root@Koryto:/tmp# advdef -z -4 vmlinuz-3.8.3-iop32x
File type not supported on vmlinuz-3.8.3-iop32x [at void convert_inplace(const std::string&):redef.cc:490]
Maybe I could try to do it on the uncompressed image? I'm actually recompiling at the moment, so will try later.