[PATCH v2] ARM: Add support for LZMA-compressed kernel images

Albin Tonnerre albin.tonnerre at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 11 14:27:52 EST 2010


On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:24 +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote :
> This patch allows using a kernel image compressed with LZMA on ARM.
> Extracting the image is fairly slow, but it might be useful on machines
> with a very limited amount of storage, as the size benefit is quite
> significant:
> Gzip: Data Size:    1586352 Bytes = 1549.17 kB = 1.51 MB
> LZMA: Data Size:    2135916 Bytes = 2085.86 kB = 2.04 MB

Meh. That should of course be:
LZMA ... 1.51MB
Gzip ... 2.04MB
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