Re: LZMA inclusion

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> 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

If these are required with latest kernel could I then ask you to
properly submit them to: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org

No need to have good patches sitting at random places.

	Sam