From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Bird Subject: Re: LZMA inclusion Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:36:45 -0800 Message-ID: <4936DFCD.2010204@am.sony.com> References: <492BA3FA.9010204@openwrt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <492BA3FA.9010204@openwrt.org> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: glp@openwrt.org Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org 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 ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America =============================