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Re: [PATCH] LZMA support in i386-pc kernel


From: Javier Martín
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LZMA support in i386-pc kernel
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:11:34 +0200

El vie, 04-07-2008 a las 03:59 +0800, Bean escribió:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Isaac Dupree
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > by the way, is LZMA decoding slow enough to be noticable on old machines,
> > every boot time? (say, more than 1 second to decode core.img?)
> 
> The code is highly optimized for size, speed may hurt a little bit.
> But anyway, today's machine should have no problem with it. Besides,
> the time spent to load font file or a true color splash image may well
> exceed it
Besides, on old machines there is also the possibility of using LZO - I
doubt someone would try to put a setup which required embedding
[biosdisk pc raid lvm ext2], which is what pushed core.img over the
limit, on a 80386.

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