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On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Paul Hirst wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:06 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > >> As far as I know (after watching the demo video) they use an >> uncompressed kernel with only drivers which the hardware requires and >> use DMA access to transfer the stuff into memory, I gather too that the >> hardware is pretty limited due to it being designed for in-car use. > > I would have thought a gzip compressed kernel would make the most sense. > They are bzip2 compressed by default aren't they? Which is pretty slow > to decompress compared to gzip. > > Can you still do 'make zImage' rather than 'make bzImage'? I haven't > compiled a kernel in a number of years now. The last one must have been > the last Gentoo system I built. I'll give it a try soon, but the current kernels now support LZMA compression which is supposed to be much faster to uncompress. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html