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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] initramfs: add support for LZO and XZ compression methods
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:05:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130122180554.6c540102@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358808943-17063-3-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>

Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:55:43 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> +config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_LZO
> +	bool "lzo"
> +	help
> +	  Do compress the cpio filesystem with lzo.
> +
> +config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_XZ
> +	bool "xz"
> +	help
> +	  Do compress the cpio filesystem with xz.

I don't remember exactly, but isn't the kernel build process itself
capable of compressing the initramfs already? I remember we had some
discussion about this a while ago, but I don't remember the outcome of
these. Arnout was leading this discussion, IIRC.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-22 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-21 22:55 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] lzop: add LZOP definition for the host variant Gustavo Zacarias
2013-01-21 22:55 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] xz: add XZ " Gustavo Zacarias
2013-01-21 22:55 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] initramfs: add support for LZO and XZ compression methods Gustavo Zacarias
2013-01-21 23:38   ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-21 23:44     ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-01-22  0:34       ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-22 17:05   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-01-22 18:17     ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-24  7:11       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-24 11:55         ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-24 10:48       ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-01-24 12:08         ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-24 12:13           ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-01-24  7:09   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-24 10:57     ` Gustavo Zacarias

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