Linux Kernel 2.4 — Compression Support

Welcome to the official Linux kernel and ramdisk compression support patch homepage. This patch provides bzip2 compression support for the Linux kernel. All you need is a vanilla Linux kernel from kernel.org and the appropriate patch from the download section.

History

• 19.10.2004 — First Linux 2.6 patch. Ported bzip2 compression to linux 2.6. Uses a generic in-kernel bzlib. Note: x86 decompression was still broken in 2.6 releases.
• 18.08.2003 — Development page online. Jörn Engel asked to use his bzlib-patch as base.
• 18.06.2003 — Bzip2 support for kernel 2.4.21. New naming convention with suffix 2.4.21-zip1.
• 04.04.2003 — Added kernel version feature in the download section.
• 30.12.2002 — Initial release for kernel 2.4.20. Kernel compression part is i386 only.

Download

Work-in-progress patches are available in the patches directory.

Disclaimer

I do not guarantee that this patch works 100 percent correctly. You do everything at your own risk. This patch is free. You can modify and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version as long as you mention that the original assembly of the code was done by Tom Oehser and that it was developed further by Christian Ludwig.