C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On 7/9/07, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At that 3M size, I'm beginning to have second thoughts about the "one >> initrd for both activation and normal booting" idea. A busybox >> (statically linked with uclibc) with enough trimmings to do darn near >> anything compresses to about 0.6 MB. The fact that the kernel can >> currently boot with no initrd at all makes it hard for me to swallow the >> proposition of tripling the load image size in the usual case. > > I'll look into how small I can make it tomorrow. If we've got to have > the initrd for activation, we might as well do normal boot with it, > since the time spent decompressing is still minimal for the sizes > we're talking about. I can try to quantify that claim once I get my > B4. ;-) > --scott > Decompression is fast, but the signature verification is not so fast, especially since there are several different algorithms.
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