From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tbm@cyrius.com (Martin Michlmayr) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:20:35 +0000 Subject: Status of bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for ARM? In-Reply-To: <20091111170729.GG2605@pc-ran3241.res.insa> References: <20091111163404.GA4362@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20091111170729.GG2605@pc-ran3241.res.insa> Message-ID: <20091111172035.GA9682@deprecation.cyrius.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Albin Tonnerre [2009-11-11 18:07]: > Regarding Bzip2, some testing showed that the decompressor needs at least 3.5Mb > of memory available for malloc(), which is not available on ARM as head.S > allocates only 64kb, so I'm sure what to do about it. At this stage, I think > the most sensible thing to do is forgetting about using bzip2 on ARM. I'm mostly interested in LZMA, so lack of bzip2 support would not be a problem for me. > The LZMA patch relies on patch 2/4 of the LZO patchset, which I > resubmitted today: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/11/129 I'll likely > submit the LZMA patch once I get Russell's approval on the ARM part > of the LZO patchset. In the Excellent! I'll give your patch a go on the weekend. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/