Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:40 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot failed with gzip'ed modules Message-ID: <200804281208.40413.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200804261840.52978.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> References: <200804252320.39121.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <200804260822.47763.jhb@freebsd.org> <200804261840.52978.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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On Saturday 26 April 2008 12:40:48 pm David Naylor wrote: > Is there any plan to add bzip2 to loader (i.e. bzip2 modules and kernel) or to > geom_uzip? If not is there a good reason why it is avoided or just a case of > lacking developer interest (or time)? > > Thank you for the quick reply bzip2 is already present, though I'm not sure it is enabled by default. The bzip2 support was one of the reasons for the aforementioned change to make malloc() in the loader use memory above 1 MB because bzip2 needs a lot more memory than gzip to decompress. -- John Baldwin
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