Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> eric, one question on removing unzip from linuxbios: where does that leave
> me with plan 9? We're planning to boot plan9 out of flash as well.
At this point the plan is to have to 2 kinds of programs a mkelfImage,
type program that converts programs so they are elf Executables
bootable with linuxBIOS.
And a set of compressor programs that compress arbitrary linuxBIOS
bootable elf executables.
I currently have a prototype based on unzip, and it looks moderately
simple to port upx to compress static elf executables. Porting upx
looks like about a weeks worth of effort, maybe a little more. Not
real hard but a little time consuming.
I definentily need to complete some of this for the alpha port.
How large is the plan9 kernel? I just curious to see how it compares
in size with linux.
Oh, and with recent compressors you can pretty assume a 3:1
compression rastio for rough calculations on how small the compressed
image will be, after being stripped.
Eric
