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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	hyojun.im@lge.com, raphael.andy.lee@gmail.com,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, gunho.lee@lge.com,
	namhyung.kim@lge.com, x86@kernel.org, minchan.kim@lge.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@gmail.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>,
	chan.jeong@lge.com, Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>,
	CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:37:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <510B629C.1010605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301312117240.6300@xanadu.home>

On 01/31/2013 06:28 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>
>> Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called
>> "paravirtualization".
> 
> The fact that you are aware of it means we're not going to break them.  
> 
> But my point is that we must not be held back just in case someone out 
> there might have painted himself in a corner without telling anyone.
> 

Yes.  However, it makes it more questionable to simply rip out
compression methods without warning.  Not that warnings help, as we have
learned.

	-hpa



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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:37:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <510B629C.1010605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301312117240.6300@xanadu.home>

On 01/31/2013 06:28 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>
>> Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called
>> "paravirtualization".
> 
> The fact that you are aware of it means we're not going to break them.  
> 
> But my point is that we must not be held back just in case someone out 
> there might have painted himself in a corner without telling anyone.
> 

Yes.  However, it makes it more questionable to simply rip out
compression methods without warning.  Not that warnings help, as we have
learned.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-01  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-26  5:50 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernels Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] decompressors: add lz4 decompressor module Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50   ` Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernels Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50   ` Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] arm: " Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50   ` Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] x86: " Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-26  5:50   ` Kyungsik Lee
2013-01-28 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add " Andrew Morton
2013-01-28 22:25   ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-29  1:16   ` kyungsik.lee
2013-01-29  1:16     ` kyungsik.lee
2013-01-29  4:29   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29  4:29     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-29  6:18     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29  6:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 10:23     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-01-30 10:23       ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-02-04  2:02       ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
2013-02-04  2:02         ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
2013-02-04 10:50         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-04 10:50           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-05 11:39           ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-02-05 11:39             ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-01-29  7:26   ` Richard Cochran
2013-01-29  7:26     ` Richard Cochran
2013-01-29 10:15   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 10:15     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 11:43     ` Egon Alter
2013-01-29 11:43       ` Egon Alter
2013-01-29 12:15       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 12:15         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-01  8:15       ` kyungsik.lee
2013-02-01  8:15         ` kyungsik.lee
2013-01-30  3:36     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30  3:36       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-30 18:33       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 18:33         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 21:48         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-31 21:48           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-31 22:16           ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 22:16             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-31 22:18             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-31 22:18               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-01  2:28               ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01  2:28                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-01  6:37                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-01  6:37                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-29 21:09   ` Rajesh Pawar
2013-01-29 21:09     ` Rajesh Pawar
2013-02-01  7:00     ` kyungsik.lee
2013-02-01  7:00       ` kyungsik.lee
2013-02-04  1:37       ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
2013-02-04  1:37         ` Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
2013-01-29 22:55 ` David Sterba
2013-01-29 22:55   ` David Sterba
2013-01-30  4:03   ` 이경식
2013-01-30  4:27   ` 이경식
2013-02-01  7:13   ` kyungsik.lee
2013-02-01  7:13     ` kyungsik.lee

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