lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Mar]   [6]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
SubjectRe: [PATCH] xz: make XZ_DEC_BCJ filters non-optional
From
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

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-03-06 22:21    [W:0.076 / U:0.088 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site