From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Subject: Re: LZMA inclusion Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:58:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20081203195852.GB8563@mx.loc> References: <492BA3FA.9010204@openwrt.org> <4936DFCD.2010204@am.sony.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc :subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=cDGGftjvvwCHlff2jsj4NRE+nEHpU/r46oKBr75TzLI=; b=OsyVGKZALnz1d6FEoMNMKSpDmbHjDbbC9S0vWSBBF/CY10ArcGabhfU5ZwoGP6UQTF rIzWhLvcpnfz/GmNnM8esJPKuyXuO73XDSdpZLyhoUo2FiOhiAyFmYQbP36ePpnMvzb2 JVcLHTtZT5WTZOWwa5X/vWdbz96WKd8y3nZns= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4936DFCD.2010204@am.sony.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tim Bird , lasse.collin@tukaani.org Cc: glp@openwrt.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:36:45AM -0800, Tim Bird wrote: >Gregers Petersen wrote: >> There was a small talk a few days ago involving a few of the OpenWrt >> developers and David Woodhouse. One of the topics discussed, was a >> question about the potential of including LZMA in the kernel. >> Such an inclusion would be quite benefitial in terms of embedded >> systems, but the major hurdle seems to be the code quality of LZMA itself. >> This leads to the question I would like to raise; are there ongoing >> plans (or considerations) to rewrite and merge LZMA, and has anyone >> started working on it in practical terms? > >Did anyone answer this? CELF is currently considering funding >a project to do this (add LZMA support to the kernel), and >it would be good to get a feel for the current status... > -- Tim AFAIK xz will be/is incompatible with this older LZMA, perhaps larhzu wants to chime in on that. PS: A previous incarnation of that patch didn't work conventiently for me, i had to do some small adjustments to the way it was put into the kernel configury, like http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=toolchain/kernel-headers/lzma/linux-2.6.22.1-002-lzma-vmlinuz.01.patch;hb=HEAD http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=toolchain/kernel-headers/lzma/linux-2.6.22.1-003-lzma-vmlinuz.patch;hb=HEAD