On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:46:53AM +0100, Patryk Benderz wrote: > Dnia 2010-01-23, sob o godzinie 17:00 +0100, Marc Andre Tanner pisze: > > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:49:03PM +0100, Marc Andre Tanner wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:13:03PM +0100, Marc Andre Tanner wrote: > > > > This is with gzip. I still have to try it with an uncompressed kernel > > > > and a > > > > lzma compressed one. > > > > > > LZO seems to be the fastest compression method it saves about 0.6 seconds. > > > > Just FYI, in case you haven't seen it yet the LZO patches got merged > > into mainline. > Could you write few sentences what are possible consequences of this for > distros/apps? Of course apart from faster booting.
The patch I was interested in 'only' improves boot time because the whole kernel is LZO compressed. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7dd65feb6c603e13eba501c34c662259ab38e70e Basic LZO support was already there and can be used in certain filesystems such as ubifs, jffs2 and probably some others. Marc -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0
