Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:07:24 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, mirrors@kernel.org, lasse.collin@tukaani.org,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, users@kernel.org,
       "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
Message-ID: <20100214170724.GE1578@ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> As a matter of fact, I am advocating the use of xz while I don't have
> it installed on most of my machines. I really don't see this as a
> blocker.

Eh?

Making many people around the world install uncommon tool is not
something that should be done lightly.

> I have an old, slow machine here which I am going to use to perform
> some real world testing, and I'll post the results when I'm done. But I
> suspect that building a kernel on this machine, even a small one with
> just the drivers it needs, will take much longer than unpacking the
> sources. So anyone worrying about performance would rather rely on
> cross-compilation, and in turn can afford whatever decompression tool
> is needed.

On zaurus, kernel compilation takes 4 hours. (I.e. "one night"). So
that one is ... well ... done overnight.

Untar is something I normally wait for, since you need to run
(interactive) oldconfig after that.
								Pavel

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