From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KSzDu-00018j-NN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:02 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSzDs-00018O-Ab for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSzDr-00018C-Rk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48324 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSzDr-000189-JM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:07:59 -0400 Received: from gateway10.websitewelcome.com ([67.18.124.14]:46837) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSzDr-0000jY-3F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:07:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 32753 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2008 19:15:20 -0000 Received: from gator297.hostgator.com (74.53.228.114) by gateway10.websitewelcome.com with SMTP; 12 Aug 2008 19:15:20 -0000 Received: from spk.venturedesignservices.com ([65.61.115.34]:4321 helo=localhost) by gator297.hostgator.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KSzDl-0005Ud-Qh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:07:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:07:53 -0700 From: Colin D Bennett To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20080812120753.3e5d447a@gibibit.com> In-Reply-To: References: <48a0e742.34062c0a.1348.ffffe488SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <3AC91C9ADCBE4EBEA1EED0CCFBBA20E1@WINSERVER2008> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator297.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gibibit.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:08:01 -0000 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:45:50 +0800 Bean wrote: > Also, it's better not to call gzio. I'm thinking about seperating the > deflate decompression routine and create a zlib like library, so that > the decoder can be used in both gzio, png and zipfs. Also, pure DEFLATE compression can be used to compress font data in the new font file format. I postponed implementing font compression to wait for DEFLATE support. Regards, Colin