Re: general kernel question
Date sent: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:57:59 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Erik van Roode <newsposter@cthulhu.demon.nl>
Subject: Re: general kernel question
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> At 10:32 PM 2/16/01 +0100, c-3 wrote:
>
> >I just wondered why the kernel is always compressed. Couldn't you
> >save boot time, if it's not???
>
> Depends on the speed of the medium from which you read the kernel,
> and the speed of the processor.
>
> If the processor can decompress faster than the medium can read, it makes
> sense to compress the image.
And is there a way to compile a non compressed kernel image?
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