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

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Message-ID: <49619601.9010900@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:09:21 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:58:23PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I have pulled the x86 parts of the bzip2/lzma patchset into
>> tip:x86/setup-lzma.  I would appreciate it if you could look at it and
>> make sure it looks sane.  I have not added the ARM portions (patch 4),
>> since those should go via the ARM tree, nor the capstone patch 5, which
>> can only be added after the old code is removed from *all* remaining
>> architectures.
>>
>> Ingo: this *will* break your randconfig testing if you have machines
>> where the lzma(1) utility isn't installed!
>>
>> The shortlog looks like:
>>
>> Alain Knaff (3):
>>       bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression
>>       bzip2/lzma: config and initramfs support for bzip2/lzma 	decompression
>>       bzip2/lzma: x86 kernel compression support
>>
>> H. Peter Anvin (3):
>>       bzip2/lzma: use a table to search for initramfs compression formats
>>       bzip2/lzma: handle failures from bzip2 and lzma correctly
>>       bzip2/lzma: make config machinery an arch configurable
> 
> Can you post this last patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Sam

Here it is.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


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