Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables
- To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
- Cc: Andrew Lenharth <adl@cs.washington.edu>, "John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables
- From: David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:46:54 -0700
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010422235255.A27209@vitelus.com>; from aaronl@vitelus.com on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:52:55PM -0700
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Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:52:55PM -0700 wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:39:07PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> > Recent versions of upx can compress a linux bzImage (I've seen 13% shaved off
> > a bzImage). debian-installer may use it to squeeze more onto the single
> > floppy (kernel + initrd with modules).
>
> Isn't that slightly redundant?
to some extent, yes.
>A bzImage is compressed in the first place.
indeed.
> If anything, it should compress the vmlinux.
I haven't tried that, if that ends up with something smaller, that's cool. I
was just using a bzImage already, so I compressed it, it was smaller, and it
booted, no need to look deeper than that.
David
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