[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/dom0: support bzip2 and lzma compressed bzImage payloads
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 09:02 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 06.11.09 09:56 >>> > >On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:24 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >the next person to come along who wants to resync them. (and why rename > >them?) > > The decompress_* prefix seemed pointless to me. I guess it just highlights all those files as being part of the same "subsystem". > >> The question is whether, particularly for non-Linux Dom0-s, plain ELF > >> images compressed by bzip2 or lzma should also be supported. > > > >It should be fairly low cost to do so, so why not? > > > >Is there a reason to treat gzip differently to bzip2/lzma? i.e. why not > >route it through decompress.c as well? Perhaps that would involve > >updating xen/common/inflate.c but that is already just a fork of what is > >now in lib/decompress_inflate.c in Linux so it should be pretty trivial. > > Yes, I had considered that, but didn't want the patch to become bigger > than necessary. I'm certainly planning on cleaning this up as a subsequent > (though lower priority) patch. Great, thanks! Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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