Re: [GIT PULL] bzip2/lzma kernel compression

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Alain Knaff wrote:
> 
> But now I am curious how this will evolve from here. I suppose it will
> soon appear in one of the patch-2.6.28-gitxy.gz under
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots , and then in an
> 2.6.29-rcx etc.
> Or are there some more other steps involved in between?
> 

Well, Linus opted not to merge it for 2.6.29-rc1, which means it is dead
for this merge cycle.  This gives us a couple of options, with the aim
to get it merged into 2.6.30:

- We can continue to carry it in the -tip tree, which also means it will
  be in the linux-next tree.
- We can push it to Andrew Morton for the -mm tree.
- Sam could take it in his kbuild tree.

Out of these, I think the kbuild tree is entirely inappropriate.  The
selection of the other two is mostly a matter of testing, and which way
will be easier to add the ARM code and other arch support.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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