Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

[Bean]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Javier Martín <address@hidden> wrote:
> El lun, 16-06-2008 a las 19:03 +0800, Bean escribió:
>> In that case, I suggest more dramatic
>> action, like replacing lzo with a strong compression algorithm, like
>> lzma, which would save a few thousand bytes.
>>
> Hmm.. that could be done without too much fuss (except the part of
> implementing the decompressor in assembly for each platform...), but
> we'd probably need to test both the change of size in the decompressor
> code and the gains in compression. Since lzma is quite complex, the
> substitution might not pay off...

Hi,

Well, I did some testing a while ago, the result is in:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00114.html

Even with lzo compressed image core.img, lzma can save up to 5K.

-- 
Bean