Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751665Ab0BMKZJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:25:09 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:35233 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193Ab0BMKZH (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:25:07 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4B767D34.2080909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:21:40 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100102 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Willy Tarreau , Jean Delvare , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> <4B75A5DC.3060803@kernel.org> <20100212202357.6363d5af@hyperion.delvare> <20100212230702.GA10266@1wt.eu> <20100213062004.GA22848@elf.ucw.cz> <4B767989.1010200@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4B767989.1010200@s5r6.in-berlin.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1031 Lines: 24 Stefan Richter wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >>> And Peter raised some valid points about the hardware requirements >>> to run such tools ; I'm not sure the guys running Linux on their old >>> Sparc-2 would like XZ only a lot. >> It is not just student on old workstation. I'm trying to keep Linux >> working on spitz PDA and kohjinsha subnotebook. Especially zaurus has >> about power of old sparc two... > > Do you actually require to download and unpack (and configure, build) > the kernel sources from kernel.org to the PDA directly? As Jean wrote, > how does unpack time matter compared to build time? PS: It boils down to CPU time requirements. For small memory systems, there is the XZ Embedded decompressor. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/