On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 04:01:01PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > PPC tends to not use compressed images
^^^^^> Not true: PPC uses compressed kernel images embedded into a loadable image > (ELF in case of my CHRP box). A quick glance at arch/ppc/coffboot/Makefile > makes me think a similar thing is done for PowerMac. note i said `tends to not use' not `never use' the boot loaders for desktop ppcs don't prefer compressed images (if they work at all which i highly doubt) i don't know what boot loader embedded devices are using but im sure its different then quik/yaboot -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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