From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: boot: support minigzip bzImage compression
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:56:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52679D3F.10805@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52673A1E.60005@roeck-us.net>
On 23.10.2013 04:53, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 10/22/2013 05:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better to fix gzip than hacking around this in the kernel?
>>
> Or just change the build system to have /bin/gzip point to minigzip if so
> desired. I have done the same to replace it with pigz.
Yes. And if the Makefiles must be patched, then I'd suggest adding a
$(GZIP) variable to the main Makefile and using that:
make GZIP=pigz bzImage
make GZIP=minigzip bzImage
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-23 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-22 21:07 [PATCH 0/1] compress kernels with minigzip Andrew Boie
2013-10-22 21:07 ` [PATCH 1/1] x86: boot: support minigzip bzImage compression Andrew Boie
2013-10-23 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-23 2:53 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-10-23 9:56 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2013-10-23 16:47 ` Boie, Andrew P
2013-10-23 16:59 ` Guenter Roeck
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