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Message-ID: <20131023165918.GC22394@roeck-us.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:59:18 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: "Boie, Andrew P" <andrew.p.boie@...el.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"mmarek@...e.cz" <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: boot: support minigzip bzImage compression
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 04:47:38PM +0000, Boie, Andrew P wrote:
> > From: Guenter Roeck [linux@...ck-us.net]
> > Or just change the build system to have /bin/gzip point to minigzip if so
> > desired. I have done the same to replace it with pigz.
> > Debian/Ubuntu provides the update-alternatives command for that
> > purpose. If that is not available, just hard-link it.
>
> Android minigzip and gzip unfortunately don't have the same command line syntax. Before I wrote this patch I had a horrible hack in place involving a shell script named "gzip" that called minigzip internally.
>
Why is that a horrible hack ? I think it is better than clogging
kernel makefiles with that kind of tools detail. Actually, you have
(at least) three other options: fix/update gzip, update minigzip
to match the gzip cli, or use a script to map one to the other.
Guenter
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