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From: Paul Richards <paul>
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Subject: Re: From the release-eng's wishlist
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In-Reply-To: <199502070429.UAA10082@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 6, 95 08:29:04 pm
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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said
> Next:  "Vak" wrote a "compressed kernel" gadget back in 1.X days, I have 
> looked at it, and would love to have it working again.  Anybody willing to 
> take a look ?  It would give us some space on the boot and cpio floppies..
> (If you can use the "inflate" already in the kernel it would be nice, since
> that has already been "kernelized".)

Well, that would be a truly neat trick, to use  the kernel inflate code
to load the kernel :-)

Did I miss something here Poul?

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