From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753313Ab3JWJ4X (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:56:23 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58554 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752821Ab3JWJ4T (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:56:19 -0400 Message-ID: <52679D3F.10805@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:56:15 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guenter Roeck Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Boie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: boot: support minigzip bzImage compression References: <1382476041-1115-1-git-send-email-andrew.p.boie@intel.com> <1382476041-1115-2-git-send-email-andrew.p.boie@intel.com> <52673A1E.60005@roeck-us.net> In-Reply-To: <52673A1E.60005@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 23.10.2013 04:53, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 10/22/2013 05:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Wouldn't it be better to fix gzip than hacking around this in the kernel? >> > Or just change the build system to have /bin/gzip point to minigzip if so > desired. I have done the same to replace it with pigz. Yes. And if the Makefiles must be patched, then I'd suggest adding a $(GZIP) variable to the main Makefile and using that: make GZIP=pigz bzImage make GZIP=minigzip bzImage Michal