From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:24:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49630715.1050204@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f9a31f40901052318s7a5a421apa5c6ed8804aeb955@mail.gmail.com>
Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:41 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> I'm thinking that with "preferred" we might just use the first one in the
>> priority list "lzma, bzip2, gzip, uncompressed" depending on what is
>> installed in the kernel.
>
> Only problem I faced with lzma is that, in some machines /usr/bin/lzma
> is not installed by default which leads to error in kernel
> compilations.
>
> Can we check in kernel config that lzma is installed on machine or not.
For building the default initramfs, we'd do it in a script. I don't
think there is any way to check the system for configuration options,
and I would argue that it *shouldn't* be, because it creates a
silent failure condition.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-04 21:46 update8 [PATCH 2/5] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds Alain Knaff
2009-01-04 23:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 23:12 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-04 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-04 23:21 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-04 23:58 ` tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05 3:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-05 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05 5:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
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2009-01-05 18:57 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-05 19:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05 22:07 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-05 22:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-05 22:12 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-05 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06 7:09 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 7:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-06 7:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06 7:30 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 21:57 ` [bzip2/lzma] fix for built-in initramfs issue Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 22:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06 22:50 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06 22:58 ` Alain Knaff
2009-01-06 7:18 ` tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-06 7:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-01-06 7:53 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-06 8:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-17 21:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-17 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-17 22:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-17 23:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-18 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-18 7:48 ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-18 9:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-18 9:40 ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-18 10:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-18 19:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-19 6:14 ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-19 14:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-19 15:41 ` Alain Knaff
2009-02-19 18:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-18 19:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-18 21:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-02-19 20:11 ` Alain Knaff
2009-03-01 13:16 ` Alain Knaff
2009-03-01 19:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02 9:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-02 9:54 ` Alain Knaff
2009-03-02 10:22 ` Ingo Molnar
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