Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:23 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xz: make XZ_DEC_BCJ filters non-optional | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote: > I am okay with enabling all filters by default as long as there is a > knob to allow turning achitecture specific BCJ filters off, as it > barely makes sense for embedded systems to have a BCJ filter > implementation for anything but the architecture you are running on.
And for x86? (oh no, I started promoting x86 ;-)
I once tried xz with an initrd on ARM. The kernel complained it couldn't decompress the initrd, oops. I didn't investigate it at that time, but probably I didn't have the x86 BCJ filter enabled, while I compressed the initrd on\ amd64.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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