> Someone said on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 
>    > The other day a guy (sorry I forgot who) says that
> 
> That was me, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, see also
> 
>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272
> 
> and the copy of the earlier message below.
> But [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlo Dapor) questions this:
> 
>    And top(1) just works fine ?  When I gzip(1)ed kernels in the past, everything
>    worked just fine, except for top(1) and IIRC ps, which could not access some
>    structure - sorry for being very vague here, it has been some time.
> 
> We are refering to a kgziped LOADER (/boot/loader) not kernel! The
> loader on the boot floppy can be kgzip-ed safely and the pr=29272
> above has the one-line patch enclosed. Maybe [EMAIL PROTECTED] who
> was working on this might incorporate this patch too, saving us
> another 60k on boot floppies?

I was actually referring to a gzip(1)'d /boot/kernel/kernel.  I just tried it
out and it works fine with top(1) and ps(1).

Ciao, derweil,
--
Carlo

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