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: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:27:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496315E3.8050906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f9a31f40901052353p4147ae8dr49187088952a5c56@mail.gmail.com>
Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Sorry, I was talking about kernel with CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y
>
> On some machines where /usr/bin/lzma was not installed I was getting
> errors during kernel compilation. So I installed lzma package and then
> kernel compiled for me on that machine.
>
Right, well, that's to be expected. (There was a bug earlier on which
would cause it to "complete" incorrectly... not good for obvious reasons.)
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 8:27 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
2009-01-06 7:53 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-06 8:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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