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Date:      Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:33:47 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC 
Message-ID:  <199912031833.LAA12058@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Dec 1999 10:13:25 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912031012250.4905-100000@hub.freebsd.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912031012250.4905-100000@hub.freebsd.org>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912031012250.4905-100000@hub.freebsd.org> Kris Kennaway writes:
: We never could. It was always an a.out gzip image activator. gzexe is
: available which does almost as good a job as having it in the kernel..

gzexe doesn't work well with an embedded system running from flash...
Then again the old a.out gzip image activator didn't work well either
because you couldn't share pages effectively, so not much is lost.

However, 8k on the boot disk is significant (.5%!).  Well worth the
effort.  Well, this assumes that the 8k figure was the compressed
size.

Warner


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