linux-kernel - Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:06:01 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	lasse.collin@...aani.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mirrors@...nel.org,
	users@...nel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

Pavel Machek wrote:
>> And Peter raised some valid points about the hardware requirements
>> to run such tools ; I'm not sure the guys running Linux on their old
>> Sparc-2 would like XZ only a lot.
> 
> It is not just student on old workstation. I'm trying to keep Linux
> working on spitz PDA and kohjinsha subnotebook. Especially zaurus has
> about power of old sparc two...

Do you actually require to download and unpack (and configure, build)
the kernel sources from kernel.org to the PDA directly?  As Jean wrote,
how does unpack time matter compared to build time?
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==-=- --=- -==-=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/