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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:23 +0100 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>, Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] xz: make XZ_DEC_BCJ filters non-optional On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote: > I am okay with enabling all filters by default as long as there is a > knob to allow turning achitecture specific BCJ filters off, as it > barely makes sense for embedded systems to have a BCJ filter > implementation for anything but the architecture you are running on. And for x86? (oh no, I started promoting x86 ;-) I once tried xz with an initrd on ARM. The kernel complained it couldn't decompress the initrd, oops. I didn't investigate it at that time, but probably I didn't have the x86 BCJ filter enabled, while I compressed the initrd on\ amd64. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/
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