[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> "Vincent Legoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > I have just gotten a general ELF compressor, and self decompressor
> > > going on x86 & alpha. And in the doing of it I found a bug in
> > > the linux ELF code. It doesn't seem to like the idea of multiple
> > > bss segments..
> > >
> > > Anyway I should have it cleaned up in a day or two so I can share...
> >
> > did you give a try at upx ?
>
> > it is a very (extremely very ;-) good at compressing executables,
> > it supports elf and various other binary formats, beta version
> > should support (perhaps not perfectly) the linux kernel....
>
> Thanks. The infrastructure is there. It doesn't do quite what I want,
> but porting it may be easier than rolling my own. Plus then I can fob
> off the maintenance on someone else :)
Plus this validates my arguments on moving the decompression out of linuxBIOS.
Eric
