[syslinux] lzma and bzip compressed kernels, initrds and images

[Kim Mik]

Wouldn't bzip2 or lzma compression be useful for compression of HD and floppy images for memdisk?

Gert Hulselmans



----- Original Message ----
From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Monday, 12 January, 2009 0:38:42
Subject: Re: [syslinux] lzma and bzip compressed kernels, initrds and images

Kim Mik wrote:
> hpa, will there be support for lzma and bzip compressed kernels, initrds and images in one of the following releases of syslinux?
> 
> I saw that you want lzma and bzip2 compression included in the kernel:
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/f415aa765c09c9f7/dae008992e14840f?lnk=raot&pli=1
> 

Hi,

Syslinux (or any other bootloader, except possibly the Xen bootloader)
won't need any changes at all.

    -hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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