Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Ollie Lho wrote:
>
> > It seems that the zlib has some problem uncompress a gzip -9 compressed
> > image. gzip -6 works fine.
>
> the kernel zlib is pretty limited, I think. I was not even willing to try
> anything beyond -3!
>
> Does -6 gain much in terms of space?
>
> ron
In our internal sample implementation, we have changed the FLASH space for
LinuxBIOS + Linux Kernel from 1MB to 640KB. and gzip -3 is not small enough
for this job.
BTW, we are also using CRAM fs for our root system. Currently we have 4MB
free space out of 8MB DoC !!!
Ollie
