From: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
To: <openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] conf/bitbake: improve compression image handling
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:48:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9E4D66.1000701@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikbZgOi7r_rOkovffHQPiXcHMrMAg@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/07/2011 10:29 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 14:23, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:19 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-e -9"
>>> LZMA_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-e -9"
>>> +GZIP_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-9"
>>> +BZIP2_COMPRESSION_LEVEL ?= "-9"
>>
>> It seems a bit sad to have to keep adding new vars to the global
>> configuration set (and hence parse them for every single recipe) every
>> time someone wants to tweak a new compression format. Can we not just
>> have a single IMAGE_COMPRESSION_LEVEL that does for everything?
>
> For me it doesn't matter; I can add it if preferred.
Why are we even tweaking gzip/bzip2? XZ/LZMA can have serious tradeoffs
at higher levels but I thought for bzip2/gzip it was either do it or no
compression, not "turn it down a little bit".
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-07 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 13:19 [PATCH 0/6] Patchset for pushing into master Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 13:19 ` [PATCH 1/6] udev (165): move ConsoleKit support to udev-consolekit package Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 13:19 ` [PATCH 2/6] conf/bitbake: improve compression image handling Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 13:19 ` [PATCH 3/6] xorg-xserver-common.inc: drop .la files from packages Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 13:19 ` [PATCH 4/6] xserver-xorg (1.9.4): enable xephyr Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 13:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] xserver-xorg (git): " Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 13:19 ` [PATCH 6/6] freerdp: update version to 2009-03-29 snapshot Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 17:27 ` Phil Blundell
2011-04-07 17:34 ` Otavio Salvador
2011-04-11 13:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] xserver-xorg (1.9.4): enable xephyr Martin Jansa
2011-04-11 13:32 ` Otavio Salvador
2011-04-11 21:45 ` Khem Raj
2011-04-07 17:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] conf/bitbake: improve compression image handling Phil Blundell
2011-04-07 17:29 ` Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 23:48 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2011-04-08 11:50 ` Otavio Salvador
2011-04-08 12:18 ` Phil Blundell
2011-04-08 12:38 ` Otavio Salvador
2011-04-08 4:32 ` Martin Jansa
2011-04-08 11:51 ` Otavio Salvador
2011-04-07 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/6] udev (165): move ConsoleKit support to udev-consolekit package Phil Blundell
2011-04-07 17:30 ` Otavio Salvador
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2011-04-01 12:16 Otavio Salvador
2011-04-01 12:16 ` [PATCH 2/6] conf/bitbake: improve compression image handling Otavio Salvador
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