From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:05:54 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] initramfs: add support for LZO and XZ compression methods In-Reply-To: <1358808943-17063-3-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> References: <1358808943-17063-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <1358808943-17063-3-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <20130122180554.6c540102@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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