Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:53:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. Message-ID: <20011219165123.L16371-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20011219154907.A82773@peitho.fxp.org>
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Chris Faulhaber wrote: >Are you sure Linux uses bzip2? According to the docs >(linux/Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt): > >Note: the difference between 'zImage' files and 'bzImage' files is that >'bzImage' uses a different layout and a different loading algorithm, >and thus has a larger capacity. Both files use gzip compression. >The 'bz' in 'bzImage' stands for 'big zImage', not for 'bzip'! Hmm, that's interesting. I've never read the docs because I try to do as little linux as I can get away with. However, it occurs to me the reason I had the impression that bzImage uses bzip compression comes from the linux users I know who think the same thing. I'm not sure what that says, but it says something. Brandon D. Valentine -- "Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari." - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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