Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 7 Feb 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > (b) move the responsibility of decompression into the kernel image
> > itself. This can still be used by the BSD's if they choose to.
>
> if you think that's the best thing to do.
I think so. The lazy reason is that it is a pain to extra an ELF
header from a gzipped image.
The reason inspired by lazyness are
(a) We need something like this for transfering these kernels over the
network anyway. At least I need to and I'm aiming having one
set of tools to do the work.
(b) This should keep the linuxBIOS code simple while allowing us
to change to a different compression algorithm if we feel like it.
I need to play with this a little more to make certain I can really
build an on the fly image decompressor as easily as I think I can :)
Eric
