Shrinking the kernel with a hammer

Posted Jan 17, 2023 10:18 UTC (Tue) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693)
In reply to: Shrinking the kernel with a hammer by npitre
Parent article: Shrinking the kernel with a hammer

[thread necromancy alert!]

Presumably when mkcramfs compresses files/blocks it has a case to store incompressible things unmodified - marking those files/blocks for XIP might be give the bulk of the benefit of a more sophisticated version for a lot less effort...