<x-flowed>It looks like they are actively looking at putting UPX in initrd, which
would be useful for LRP. It would be a relatively small step to go from
there to using UPX on all LRP packages. (tar.upx format vs. tar.gz)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:39 -0800
From: John Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [LRP-dev] tighter compression for Linux kernels
> > Beta release v1.11 of the UPX executable compressor http://upx.tsx.org
> > offers new, tighter re-compression of compressed Linux kernels for x86.
>
> How about kernel modules?
We're looking at applying UPX to initial ram disk (initrd) and/or cramfs.
Suggestions, comments, etc. are welcome.
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At 09:32 AM 12/28/2000 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
>On 28 Dec 2000, at 14:31, Kenneth Hadley wrote:
>
> > its my opinion that upx would be very usefull on LRP kernels but a hit
> > and miss afair on LRP packages (it may help in certain cases but its
> > up to the packager of the program)
>
>You may be right.
>
> > anyone have any thoughts?
>
>I experimented myself, though not with Linux kernels. UPX is an
>executable compressor; when you create a package, the files are
>combined (with tar) and compressed with gzip. Thus, a compressed
>executable is being compressed AGAIN - which leads typically to no
>space savings or more space being used (instead of less). This is
>normal for compression of compressed files.
>
>The best thing I can see is that UPX will save memory space - if your
>requirements require a 16M machine, then UPX will help in those
>situations. If your requirements require 1.44M disks, you won't get
>any help from UPX :-)
>
>It sounds like UPX may help in compressing the kernels, though.
>Hmmmm.....
>
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