[PATCH 3/5] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels

2009-07-22 Thread Albin Tonnerre
This is the first part of the lzo patch The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at extraction. Here are some figures for an ARM board I'm working on: Uncompressed size: 3.24Mo gzip 1.61Mo 0.72s lzo 1.75Mo 0.48s So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels

2009-07-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
kevin.gran...@gmail.com wrote: So for a compression ratio that is still relatively close to gzip, it's much faster to extract, at least in that case. Is that time to run the extraction algorithm, or time to read in image from media and extract? I think the time to read from the media