From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 6 23:57:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA16772 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:57:01 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA16765; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:56:58 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA11455; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:56:52 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199502070756.XAA11455@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: From the release-eng's wishlist To: paul@freefall.cdrom.com (Paul Richards) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:56:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502070729.XAA15917@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Paul Richards" at Feb 6, 95 11:29:31 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 961 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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? yes obviously. :-) What his code does is to generate a image like this: [executable uncompressor|compressed kernel] I see no need to have the same source twice in the kernel tree, so for the executable uncompressor, use the inflate we already have in the tree... got it ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)