linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xz: Enable BCJ filters on SPARC and 32-bit x86

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Message-ID: <4F8EF454.9060000@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:05:24 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xz: Enable BCJ filters on SPARC and 32-bit x86

On 04/18/2012 09:55 AM, Lasse Collin wrote:
> From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
> 
> The BCJ filters were meant to be enabled already on these
> archs, but the xz_wrap.sh script was buggy. Enabling the
> filters should give smaller kernel images.
> 
> xz_wrap.sh will now use $SRCARCH instead of $ARCH to detect
> the architecture. That way it doesn't need to care about the
> subarchs (like i386 vs. x86_64) since the BCJ filters don't
> care either.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

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