Originally posted by Danny3
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The decoder is really a layer around the kernel-image, kinda like some self-extracting zip/rar archive. On one of my ARM boards this is painfully obvious, as the bootloader is not able to initialize the voltage regulators and the cpu runs at s laughable fraction of its speed while decompressing.
You could however see the time it takes to decompress the initramdisk in the logs.
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