Subject: Re: GZip for StrongARM
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen <thomassk@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/04/1996 13:38:15
> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:48:08 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>
> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Alex McLintock wrote:
> 
>> (Does anyone have a StrongARM compatible "gzip"?)
> 
> The !gzip from HENSA works okay for me, so long as I run "*cache off"
> first. Not a neat solution, but good enough to get an SA kernel unzipped so
> I could get my system running again. 

David Pilling has released v. 1.28 of SparkFS. This is compatible
with StrongARM, and an upgrade from 1.27 is available on his W3 pages:
http://www.pilling.demon.co.uk/up.html

This handles gzip very well, and is the one I use.

NB! SparkFS is commercial software and cost somewhere around GBP25.

Kjetil B.