Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:50:14 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: compressed bootloader ? Message-ID: <199801262050.VAA00805@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi, just happened to see that some linux netboot code uses a compressed ROM image. Thinking about the size problem of the secondary boot loader (7KB or so). gzipping the boot loader brings the size down from 7120 to 4496, so I believe that even adding some 5-700 bytes for the uncompression code would give us some additional space (assuming there is any use for it). Any taker ? Cheers Luigi
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