I agree... not sure why the FreeDOS kernel folks felt that was necessary. Maybe
a size limitation of the bootloader?
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On Jul 10, 2018, 12:47 AM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 7/9/2018 7:43 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
>> So, I've been looking into de-UPXing the kernel image and keep getting
>> told by the UPX binary that the image "wasn't compressed by UPX". Is
>> there anything special I have to do to convince it otherwise? Was the
>> kernel in fact not compressed by UPX? I'm using the latest UPX on
>> Linux Mint 19, if that helps.
> What would be the purpose of using UPX today? It made kind of sense back
> in the days of slow data media (floppy disks) but nowadays, there just
> isn't IMHO any valid reason to do that anymore.
>
> Ralf
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