[RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Feb 27 04:56:09 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:40:34PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 22:10 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > So... for a selected kernel version of a particular size, can we please
> > have a comparison between the new LZO code and this LZ4 code, so that
> > we can see whether it's worth updating the LZO code or replacing the
> > LZO code with LZ4?
> 
> How could it be questionable that it's worth updating the LZO code?

Please read the comments against the previous posting of these patches
where I first stated this argument - and with agreement from those
following the thread.  The thread started on 26 Jan 2013.  Thanks.



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