On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 14:55 +0800, Bean wrote: > You can try Robert's case: > > grub-mkimage -d . -o core.img pc ext2 lvm raid
50764 image 35090 image.lzo 27308 image.gz 27012 image.bz2 24470 image.lzma > The uncompressed part need to be added as well, which is 1280 byte. It's actually going to depend on the decompression algorithm. > My concern about other compression is that even if space problem can > be fixed now, but the limit is not far away, so we may have to worry > about it again when new code is added, lzma could be a way to solve > this once and for all. We would save 7782 bytes going to gzip or 10620 bytes going to lzma. There is not much difference as long as we abandon lzop in favor of something else. If I run string on the image to be compressed, I see all function names, such as grub_biosdisk_get_diskinfo_int13_extensions. I don't see why we need function names there. Function names starting with "grub_" take 4590 bytes. It looks like we have some reserves for slimming down the core. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
