On 2013-11-14 03:32, Christian Ruppert wrote: > 2. A patch to enable uncompressed x86 kernels. As stated above, I don't > think this makes a lot of sense in itself but it might serve as an > example for people working on other platforms with self-extracting > kernels and the nozip not-decompression algorithm might be useful on > those platforms as well. I only had a single x86-64 machine available > to test this, however, so some more testing might be required.
I disagree with the argument that an uncompressed x86 kernel doesn't make sense, If you have a very fast boot device, then it is fully conceivable that an uncompressed kernel could boot faster than a compressed one. I have seen a very large number of systems where the LZO compression boots at least twice as fast as gzip or bz2 (because the disks are fast enough that a few megabytes of size difference make much less of an impact than a slow decompressor). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
