Hi Phillip,
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:38, Phillip Lougher
<phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>>
>> Did you consider using cryptoapi? UBIFS uses zlib/lzo in cryptoapi - it
>> is a very clean way.
Exactly my question, as that's why the Crypto API was extended with
support for partial (de)compression in the first place ;-)
In addition, using the Crypto API has the advantage that Squashfs will
use hardware decompression if/when available.
> Yes I did consider using the cryptoapi, but this doesn't have support for
> lzma in mainline.
IIRC, Felix Fietkau added support for that for OpenWRT...
> My aim is add lzma filesystem support to Squashfs using the existing kernel
> lzma iplementation, and to make as few changes to that as necessary.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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