From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756686AbZBSGPY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:15:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752446AbZBSGPL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:15:11 -0500 Received: from crmm.lgl.lu ([158.64.72.228]:39262 "EHLO lll.lu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752314AbZBSGPK (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:15:10 -0500 Message-ID: <499CF8D2.9080309@knaff.lu> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:14:42 +0100 From: Alain Knaff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma References: <200901042146.n04LkHgP005837@hitchhiker.hitchhiker.org.lu.hitchhiker.org.lu> <4961415C.1050708@zytor.com> <49614243.70102@knaff.lu> <496142E4.8040308@zytor.com> <49614491.7020903@knaff.lu> <49614D1F.8020900@zytor.com> <499B267E.2090509@zytor.com> <20090217220825.GA24337@elte.hu> <20090217233708.GA10756@elte.hu> <499B5BCA.8000905@zytor.com> <499BBD62.5090506@knaff.lu> <499BD795.6050602@knaff.lu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Even if it is true in general, I would not remove CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE Hmmm, but now that I think of it, maybe the CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE setting could be used to decide whether to compress initramfs. If empty => do not compress builtin initramfs. It's only 950 bytes, and will be compressed along with the kernel anyways. If not empty => use an additional config setting (let's call it CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION) to decide which compressor to use. Regards, Alain