kernel presentation at ILUG on Sat.

[Hal Duston]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:41, Jason Clinton wrote:
> I'm almost completely positive that BZip2 is used if your make target
> is bzImage. Doesn't make target "install" create a gzip image?

No.  I have built bzImage's on boxes that don't have bzip2 installed.
bzip2 permforms _very_ poorly on pre-pentium/low memory boxes.

gentoo-2.4.20-r2 # make bzImage 2>&1 | fgrep zip
gzip -f -9 < $tmppiggy > $tmppiggy.gz; gentoo-2.4.20-r2 #
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Hal