[Apologies if anyone gets this twice; I don't know who's on the Tom's
mailing list.]
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Tom Oehser wrote:
>>Regarding kernel bloat and compiling smaller kernels. bzip2 support
>>helps quite a bit.
>tomsrtbt will go back to 1.2... You said, 'bzip2 support helps quite a
>bit'... _is_ there already such a patch?
There is a common misconception that the kernel source's 'make
bzImage' uses bzip or bzip2. Perhaps that is the source of this.
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David Damerell, Computer Officer, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge
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