Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Lasse Collin wrote: > > Is it OK that the decoder allocates memory in the middle of > > decoding, or must all the memory be preallocated when the decoder > > is initialized? If everything has to be preallocated, then the > > initialization function needs an argument to specify how big > > dictionary must be supported. It doesn't make sense to allocate 1 > > MiB just in case if the caller knows that 128 KiB dictionary is the > > maximum that will ever be needed. > > If you want to make it available through the crypto API, you cannot > allocate memory in the (de)compression routines theirselves, only in > the initialization function. OK, thanks. My work on the upcoming xz package has been progressing quite OK in the past two weeks. I suppose that I could start working on the kernel .xz decoder at some point in January 2009. I will post to linux-embedded once I have some working code to show (hopefully in February). -- Lasse Collin | IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode -- 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
