linux-kernel - Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma

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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:59:44 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>
CC:	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma

Alain Knaff wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I'm thinking that with "preferred" we might just use the first one in
>> the priority list "lzma, bzip2, gzip, uncompressed" depending on what is
>> installed in the kernel.
>>
>> Using the kernel method may definitely not work, especially on
>> architectures which don't do this style of kernel compression.
>>
>>     -hpa
> 
> Ok. For the new change, may I do a diff against the current
> x86/lzma-setup , or should I do the whole 5-part dance again?
> 

Go ahead and do an incremental patch at this point.

	-hpa

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