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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
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On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 12:27 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Aug 9, 2016, at 5:08 AM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl
> > > wrote:
> > 
> > I've been adding "lzop-native" to a lot of kernel recipes because
> > you also need it when generating an LZO compressed kernel (I like
> > my boot time to be under 1 second).
> > 
> > It's a small dependency which is hard to automatically figure out,
> > since there are a number of ways to trigger it (we just found two).
> > I would welcome this patch very much, and I don't think many will
> > suffer…
> 
> From linux.inc days there is a python snippet which can do this
> conditionally e.g. see
> 
> https://github.com/kraj/meta-raspberrypi/blob/master/recipes-kernel/l
> inux/linux-rpi.inc#L121

Which is fine if you have a prebuild defconfig file however in many
cases we don't have that :(

Cheers,

Richard