Re: question on linux elf image

[Henrik Austad <henrikau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 06 October 2008 22:53:10 Sri Ram K Vemulpali wrote:
> hi all,
>
>     I have a doubt? why is that kernel has to be compress the image file to
> copy to boot dir, to boot the kernel. I did not get why we do compressing
> image file after we compile the kernel code. Any answers would be helpful.
> Thank you.

Most likely because decompressing an image takes less time than it would take 
to read the uncompressed image from disk. So, in other words, to save time.

Slap me silly if I'm wrong :)

> Sri


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med vennlig hilsen - Yours Sincerely, 
Henrik Austad

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