> >>>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.
>
> I hope I haven't spread this misconception. I made this mistake
> here and I've probably made it before.
And, he he, when I'm done with it, it *will*, which can really add to the
confusion... I probably should call it bz2bzImage to distinguish it...
I think the 'b' in 'bzImage' just comes from 'big', and the 'b' in 'bzip2'
probably comes either from 'block-sorting' or 'Burrows-Wheeler' or maybe
just things like gzip are considered the 'a' stage of lossless compression
and now we are in stage 'b'.
-Tom
