zImage compressed with what?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
> The Linux kernel is compressed and placed in a "zImage" file.  What is
>  the compression format of that file.
>
>  I've never had to look into it before but I am now.  I figure one of you
>  may already know.

zimage is just gzip compression, and bzimage is bzip2 compression
(iirc) -- unless they are talking about cpio-related stuff for the
kernel I guess...
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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