Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: add target to install gzipped modules

[Michal Marek]

On 29.12.2011 18:35, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> The operation that is used most of the time is to load modules. The
> reason for having modules gzipped is the same one as for kernel image:

The reason for having the kernel compressed is that the x86 bootloader
reads the kernel (and initrd) using bios calls. That's not the case for
modules.

Michal
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