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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add fast lzo decompressor
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:55:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D3D4C0.1080506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238613730.10514.35.camel@andreas-desktop>

Andreas Robinson wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the system can default to the safe decompressor for normal use
> and choose the fast one if STATIC is defined or when system_state ==
> SYSTEM_BOOTING?
> 

Do we really need two pieces of code?  What if we have memory corruption 
during early boot - it seems we'd want to at least try to catch that 
with an error message rather than just crashing.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01 13:40 [PATCH 0/2] lib, initramfs: Add initramfs LZO compression Andreas Robinson
2009-04-01 13:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: add fast lzo decompressor Andreas Robinson
2009-04-01 16:12   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-01 19:22     ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-01 20:55       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-01 22:27         ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-01 22:42           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-01 23:11             ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-01 23:40               ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-04-02 12:30                 ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-02 20:59                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-04-03 10:54                     ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-03 11:48                       ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-04-03 12:53                         ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-03 23:28                           ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-04-02  0:02               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-02 12:13             ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-02 14:30       ` John Stoffel
2009-04-03  9:49         ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-03 18:35           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-04 14:34             ` Andreas Robinson
2009-04-01 13:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] lib, initramfs: add support for LZO-compressed initramfs Andreas Robinson
2009-04-01 19:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] lib: enable lzo-compressed kernels Andreas Robinson

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