Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:15:07 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Read CONFIG_RD_ variables for initramfs compression |
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:25:57 +0530 (IST) P J P <ppandit@redhat.com> wrote:
> When expert configuration option(CONFIG_EXPERT) is enabled, > menuconfig offers a choice of compression algorithm to compress > initial ramfs image; This choice is stored into CONFIG_RD_* > variables. But usr/Makefile uses earlier INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_* > macros to build initial ramfs file. Since none of them is defined, > resulting 'initramfs_data.cpio' file remains un-compressed. > > This patch updates the Makefile to use CONFIG_RD_* variables and > adds support for LZ4 compression algorithm.
This patch breaks my x86_64 allmodconfig build, because I don't have the lz4 executable installed:
/usr/src/25/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: line 307: lz4: command not found make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lz4] Error 1
This obviously isn't acceptable!
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