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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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