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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Feb 28 16:32:13 PST 2009


Kim Mik wrote:
> Wouldn't bzip2 or lzma compression be useful for compression of HD and floppy images for memdisk?
> 
> Gert Hulselmans

It could be, yes; that would be a change for memdisk and not for the
bootloader per se.  It might be interesting to port this code over, but
I think it's a low priority.

	-hpa

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