Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753226AbZAEW7p (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:59:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751165AbZAEW7g (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:59:36 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41119 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750845AbZAEW7f (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:59:35 -0500 Message-ID: <496290E0.3020603@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:59:44 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alain Knaff CC: the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma References: <200901042146.n04LkHgP005837@hitchhiker.hitchhiker.org.lu.hitchhiker.org.lu> <4961415C.1050708@zytor.com> <49614243.70102@knaff.lu> <496142E4.8040308@zytor.com> <49614491.7020903@knaff.lu> <49614D1F.8020900@zytor.com> <49615136.9080900@knaff.lu> <4961580A.1020301@zytor.com> <4961A816.40302@knaff.lu> <4961A997.10108@zytor.com> <4961ADC5.6030108@knaff.lu> <49622DE9.2010200@zytor.com> <496240DF.2010102@knaff.lu> <49624F6C.8010103@zytor.com> <4962522F.20804@knaff.lu> <496255B0.1050208@zytor.com> <4962580B.2080806@knaff.lu> <4962612C.8090405@zytor.com> <496284A2.9070003@knaff.lu> <4962858F.20207@zytor.com> <496285C8.7050503@knaff.lu> In-Reply-To: <496285C8.7050503@knaff.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 24 Alain Knaff wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I'm thinking that with "preferred" we might just use the first one in >> the priority list "lzma, bzip2, gzip, uncompressed" depending on what is >> installed in the kernel. >> >> Using the kernel method may definitely not work, especially on >> architectures which don't do this style of kernel compression. >> >> -hpa > > Ok. For the new change, may I do a diff against the current > x86/lzma-setup , or should I do the whole 5-part dance again? > Go ahead and do an incremental patch at this point. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/