linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33-rc1: LZMA kernel fails to decompress

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Date:	Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:15:41 -0500
From:	"John Stoffel" <john@...ffel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>, Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>,
	Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc1: LZMA kernel fails to decompress

>>>>> "H" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> writes:

H> On 12/27/2009 12:19 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> 
>> What I think should be done here is to revert my patch (that replaces
>> /bin/echo with printf, so that /bin/echo will be used) and test the
>> real solution, which is to stop doing all this hackery altogether,
>> and calculate the size the right way instead.  Sam already posted a
>> possible solution, and it seems to be correct.
>> 

H> Yes, but it moves the calculation from generic to x86-specific code,
H> which makes it problematic.

H> I never figured out how to make a generic rule in Kbuild (unlike in
H> standard GNU make) depend on a helper application, but doing a
H> helper application for this is probably the sane thing.

H> Either this, or use Perl, which handles this kind of crap sanely.
H> I'm really less than half joking.

Yeah, I've never understood this mania to purge the build process of
any and all use of perl.  If anything, it should *all* be perl so as
to simplify the maint since it's all the same, no matter where you run
perl.

And for those who say "but I need to compile the kernel in my
miniscule, locked down environment" my reply is "cross-compile".

Heck, even pure C code would do the trick here.

John
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