Re: compressed sparc kernels?
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:39:22PM -0500, jason smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:44:46PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > FYI, on sparc/ultrasparc, there is no "make bzimage". If you don't use
> > the .deb creation, you just run make, gzip the vmlinux, and move it to
> > /boot/ along with the System.map. Afterwhich run "make modules_install".
>
> I was under the impression that, since there is no kernel size
> restriction for sparc, I don't need to compress the kernel.
>
> http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_4_10
>
> Are there any advantages (besides the obvious speed/size tradeoff) to
> kernel compression?
Nope.
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