Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

[Bean]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Javier Martín <address@hidden> wrote:
> El lun, 16-06-2008 a las 19:47 +0800, Bean escribió:
>> 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.
>>
> You mean that even with an already compressed LZO image, LZMA can
> further compress it another 5 KB? Then I guess we're in! The only
> problem of LZMA that could become a blocker is it's expansive memory
> use, but the core image is small enough not to need more that a few KBs
> of memory for decompression, I hope.

Hi,

But do we really need those space ? I think lzo is working fine, we
should avoid switching unless there is a good reason to do so.

-- 
Bean