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Re: wheee vmlinux worked



On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> i assume .coff ?  personally i think it would be nice if yaboot
> supported sparc style compressed images, that is plain gzipped
> kernels, could be useful to speed up netboots (albeit not by that
> much) 

M68k booters do the same. It's not that difficult to add gzip support to your
booter. Feel free to look at m68kboot.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



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