diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
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 	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
 
+choice
+        prompt "Kernel compression mode"
+        default KERNEL_GZIP
+        help
+	  The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
+	  Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
+	  in efficiency, compression and decompression speed.
+	  Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel.
+	  Decompression speed is relevant at each boot.
+
+	  If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed
+	  kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older
+	  version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was
+	  supplied by Christian Ludwig)
+
+	  High compression options are mostly useful for users, who
+	  are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram
+	  size matters less.
+
+	  If in doubt, select 'gzip'
+
+config KERNEL_GZIP
+       bool "Gzip"
+       help
+         The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
+	 the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
+	 compression and decompression) is the fastest.
+
+config KERNEL_BZIP2
+	bool "Bzip2"
+	help
+	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
+	  Decompression speed is slowest among the 3.
+	  The kernel size is about 10 per cent smaller with bzip2,
+	  in comparison to gzip.
+	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels
+	  you will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
+
+config KERNEL_LZMA
+       bool "LZMA"
+       help
+         The most recent compression algorithm.
+	 Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
+	 2. Compression is slowest.
+	 The kernel size is about 33 per cent smaller with lzma,
+	 in comparison to gzip.
+
+endchoice
+
+
 config SWAP
 	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
 	depends on MMU && BLOCK