Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Jeremy Jackson wrote: > > > Not using gunzip in linuxbios... can I get a replay on that thread? (Eric is > > right?) > > First, don't worry, gunzip isn't going away any time soon. > > removing gunzip() from linuxbios itself is what you get as part of > mkelfImage. MkelfImage will take an arbitrary executable and bundle it in > with a gunzip stub (just as bzImage works in linux now) such that the > bundle unzips itself. It took me a while to see what Eric was up to but > now that I get it I have found it very useful.
Essentially right. Currently mkelfImage only works for linux kernels. And native ports are easy enough to do that is going to be my preference in the future. At the same time a slightly different tool or set of tools will be built to compress arbitrary executables. It's all part of the same effort in any case. The nice thing you get with have a decompressor stub is you can get more efficient decompressors, without bloating your image. Removing gunzip significantly shrinks down linuxBIOS. Eric
