From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel+linux-kernel@molgen.mpg.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to disable Linux kernel self-extraction (KERNEL_GZIP, KERNEL_BZIP2, …)?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:55:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424095555.GA11868@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180424020824.2vsddcdndjnvdm46@angband.pl>
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Hi!
> > Actually... Compressors usually have a mode when they store the data
> > uncompressed. So you should be able to prepare .gz image which is not
> > really compressed inside, and thus really fast to uncompress.
>
> I can't seem to find any. IIRC xz format can store uncompressed blocks but
> the tool doesn't appear to expose this as an option.
I believe most compressors should be able to do that. But yes, that
option would need to be exported.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-24 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-20 14:36 How to disable Linux kernel self-extraction (KERNEL_GZIP, KERNEL_BZIP2, …)? Paul Menzel
2018-04-22 10:20 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-22 19:55 ` Paul Menzel
2018-04-22 20:52 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-23 17:02 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-24 2:08 ` Adam Borowski
2018-04-24 9:08 ` Paul Menzel
2018-04-24 23:06 ` Adam Borowski
2018-04-25 1:12 ` On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:08:34AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Adam Borowski
2018-04-25 1:12 ` Adam Borowski
2018-04-24 9:55 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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