From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754029AbYIGEr1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:47:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750924AbYIGErS (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:47:18 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53771 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864AbYIGErR (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:47:17 -0400 Message-ID: <48C35CA9.4010205@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:46:33 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Noonan CC: Alain Knaff , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds References: <200809062119.m86LJ5Of026101@hitchhiker.org.lu> <48C34803.60006@zytor.com> <1a6b76aa0809062135n4d0710c7sf7332d6b4e63cdad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1a6b76aa0809062135n4d0710c7sf7332d6b4e63cdad@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steven Noonan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Alain Knaff wrote: >>> This version applies to kernel 2.6.26.3 >>> >> Could you produce a version against the -tip tree, either the master branch >> or the x86/setup branch? > > I second this. > > I tested the existing patch, and it works great when applied to > 2.6.26. It'd be great to see a version of this either go into -mm or > mainline sometime soon. > I should warn that I looked over the patch, and it looks quite messy. It may need structural cleanup before integration. -hpa