linux-kernel - Re: About support XZ-compressed kernel on x86

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:57:55 +0200
From:	Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
To:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, alain@...ff.lu,
	phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	keescook@...omium.org, bp@...en8.de, vgoyal@...hat.com
Subject: Re: About support XZ-compressed kernel on x86

On 2016-02-16 Baoquan He wrote:
> On 02/15/16 at 10:26pm, Lasse Collin wrote:
> > Yes, like all zeros. I wrote another explanation just in case it
> > helps:  
> 
> Yes, this is great and very helpful for people who want to understand
> this details. I want to make some change to improve the readability of
> the description in boot/compressed/misc.c, do you mind if I put these
> there? Or you can post a patch to adjust it.

It's fine for me if you want to do it, although I think the current
description there is quite good already.

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