On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:36:45AM -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > >Gregers Petersen wrote: > >> There was a small talk a few days ago involving a few of the OpenWrt > >> developers and David Woodhouse. One of the topics discussed, was a > >> question about the potential of including LZMA in the kernel. > >> Such an inclusion would be quite benefitial in terms of embedded > >> systems, but the major hurdle seems to be the code quality of LZMA itself. > >> This leads to the question I would like to raise; are there ongoing > >> plans (or considerations) to rewrite and merge LZMA, and has anyone > >> started working on it in practical terms? > > > >Did anyone answer this? CELF is currently considering funding > >a project to do this (add LZMA support to the kernel), and > >it would be good to get a feel for the current status... > > -- Tim > > AFAIK xz will be/is incompatible with this older LZMA, perhaps > larhzu wants to chime in on that. > > PS: A previous incarnation of that patch didn't work conventiently > for me, i had to do some small adjustments to the way it was put > into the kernel configury, like > http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=toolchain/kernel-headers/lzma/linux-2.6.22.1-002-lzma-vmlinuz.01.patch;hb=HEAD > http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=toolchain/kernel-headers/lzma/linux-2.6.22.1-003-lzma-vmlinuz.patch;hb=HEAD If these are required with latest kernel could I then ask you to properly submit them to: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No need to have good patches sitting at random places. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
