From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 9 11: 6:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E0337B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:06:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eA9J6Ms10566; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:06:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly question References: <200011091903.MAA43016@harmony.village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Now that the boot loader supports compressed kernels and has for some :time, I was wondering why we don't gzip our kernels and kernel driver :modules like we do man pages. : :Warner Hmm. What about when libkvm needs to do a symbol lookup? Or the system needs to makes a crash dump? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message