[LinuxBIOS] selection of compression algorithm

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [060522 07:22]:
> It's fine with me. As i said, I had a gzip decompressor in early 
> linuxbios, and we can look at getting it back. I just stole the one from 
> the kernel. nrv2b is nice, I understand, for the romcc section where you 
> don't have many variables to play with, but it's been so long since I 
> looked at the gunzip code that I have no idea if this is true.

We never actually compile nrv2b with romcc, do we? At the point we run
nrv2b ram has to be enabled anyways - we uncompress the code somewhere.
So our limits are far bigger than that.

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