Re: low compression of kernel

Felix Kloeckner  writes:
> hello,
>
> just a simple question:
>
> what's the reason for using only a compression level of 3 instead of default or
> even maximum?
>
> 9 works fine for me and give me some additional space for the kernel
>
> "makerule linux.bin.gz: linux.bin ;gzip -f -3 linux.bin" in
> "src/arch/i386/config/make.base", line 39

Two reasons.
1) That code has been depricated for over a year.
2) There were bugs seen when decompressing a kernel when presented
   with a kernel with maximum decompression.

Eric