From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: LZMA inclusion Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 21:20:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20081203202009.GA6790@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <492BA3FA.9010204@openwrt.org> <4936DFCD.2010204@am.sony.com> <20081203195852.GB8563@mx.loc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081203195852.GB8563@mx.loc> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Cc: Tim Bird , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, glp@openwrt.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:36:45AM -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > >Gregers Petersen wrote: > >> There was a small talk a few days ago involving a few of the OpenWrt > >> developers and David Woodhouse. One of the topics discussed, was a > >> question about the potential of including LZMA in the kernel. > >> Such an inclusion would be quite benefitial in terms of embedded > >> systems, but the major hurdle seems to be the code quality of LZMA itself. > >> This leads to the question I would like to raise; are there ongoing > >> plans (or considerations) to rewrite and merge LZMA, and has anyone > >> started working on it in practical terms? > > > >Did anyone answer this? CELF is currently considering funding > >a project to do this (add LZMA support to the kernel), and > >it would be good to get a feel for the current status... > > -- Tim > > AFAIK xz will be/is incompatible with this older LZMA, perhaps > larhzu wants to chime in on that. > > PS: A previous incarnation of that patch didn't work conventiently > for me, i had to do some small adjustments to the way it was put > into the kernel configury, like > http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=toolchain/kernel-headers/lzma/linux-2.6.22.1-002-lzma-vmlinuz.01.patch;hb=HEAD > http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=toolchain/kernel-headers/lzma/linux-2.6.22.1-003-lzma-vmlinuz.patch;hb=HEAD If these are required with latest kernel could I then ask you to properly submit them to: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org No need to have good patches sitting at random places. Sam