On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Lasse Collin wrote: > On 2009-03-25 Leon Woestenberg wrote: > > Is this something the linux-embedded community must pick up, or maybe > > even the LKML? > > In December, there was some discussion on linux-embedded about getting > LZMA decoder into Linux. I understood that some of the existing patches > had trouble meeting the kernel quality standards. There were also > requirements like support for multi-call decoding, which should be > useful at least in Squashfs. I promised to write a nice-looking .xz file > format decoder for Linux (.xz will replace the .lzma format) and post to > linux-embedded when I have something to show. Yes, this is interesting work! > Assuming there still is interest like there was in December, hope I will > get some feedback to know if my code looks promising and possibly how it > should be improved to be good for in-kernel use. This is my first Linux > kernel related coding project, so there probably are things (other than > plain bugs) that need to be fixed before the code can be considered for > inclusion. I gave it a quick test on ppc64, and the kernel part built fine with sparse checking enabled (make C=1), without any warnings. > If linux-embedded is not the best list for this, I can post to LKML too. > However, since I promised to post at least to linux-embedded, and the > discussion on this list in December was very helpful for me to > understand what is required from an in-kernel decompressor, starting a > new discussion first on linux-embedded sounded obvious to me. Ccing lkml wouldn't hurt, I think. With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V. VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis · BIC GEBABEBB · IBAN BE41293037680010 -- 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
