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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1 v2] build host lz4 to support lz4 compression in the kernel.
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:37:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150401223752.0fd358cf@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427919153-16080-1-git-send-email-sagaert.johan@proximus.be>

Dear Sagaert Johan,

On Wed,  1 Apr 2015 22:12:33 +0200, Sagaert Johan wrote:

> +# lz4 kernel compression is only available on ARM and kernel >= 3.11
> +# we always build host-lz4 when the target is ARM.
> +# (how could i use LINUX_VERSION_PROBED to check for >=3.11 ?)
> +ifeq ($(BR2_arm),y)
> +LINUX_DEPENDENCIES += host-lz4
> +endif

No that still isn't good: LZ4 compressed kernel is available on ARM,
MIPS, x86 and S390 (we don't care about the latter in Buildroot).

No, I really think we need to add new options in linux/Config.in.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-01 20:12 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1 v2] build host lz4 to support lz4 compression in the kernel Sagaert Johan
2015-04-01 20:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-04-01 21:55   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-04-01 22:01     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-04-02 22:06       ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-04-02 23:35         ` Johan Sagaert
2015-04-04 22:51         ` Johan Sagaert
2015-04-05  9:12           ` Yann E. MORIN

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