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From: Tom Oehser <tom@toms.net>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Christian Ludwig <cl81@gmx.net>,
	Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>,
	Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bzip2 support against 2.4.18
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:25:37 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207121023300.23208-100000@conn6m.toms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17SwAM-0002e2-00@starship>


> Do you really?  Why?  Exactly what purpose does it serve to know how your
> kernel was compressed, considering that it knows how to uncompress itself?

I already use the name in scripts for tomsrtbt to decide whether the ramdisk
should be compressed with bzip2 or gzip, since the kernel compression method
(in my original patch) determines the required ramdisk compression.

-Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-12 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-10 13:57 bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Christian Ludwig
2002-07-10 15:54 ` bzip2 patent status query jbradford
2002-07-10 16:48   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-10 17:37     ` jbradford
2002-07-10 17:08   ` Alan Cox
2002-07-10 17:26   ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-10 21:11   ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-12  7:04     ` Christian Ludwig
     [not found] ` <20020711062832.GU1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
2002-07-11  7:21   ` bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Christian Ludwig
2002-07-11 17:22     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12  6:36       ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12  7:30         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12  8:32           ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12  8:52             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 10:12               ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 12:01                 ` jw schultz
2002-07-12 14:25               ` Tom Oehser [this message]
2002-07-12 14:49                 ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-15 21:31             ` Horst von Brand
2002-07-16 12:01               ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-12 12:37           ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-13 13:56           ` john slee
2002-07-13 14:04             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 15:02               ` Tomas Szepe
2002-07-13 14:44             ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-12 12:33         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-12 13:05         ` jbradford
2002-07-12 13:24         ` Mark Mielke
2002-07-12 13:49           ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-12 14:21         ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-15  6:28           ` Christian Ludwig
2002-07-15 12:17             ` Tom Oehser
2002-07-16  8:28               ` [PATCH] bzip2 compression for kernel 2.4 and ramdisk Christian Ludwig
2002-07-13  5:16       ` bzip2 support against 2.4.18 Mike Touloumtzis

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