Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels

2009-08-05 Thread Albin Tonnerre
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:00:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote : On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:58:18 +0200 Albin Tonnerre albin.tonne...@free-electrons.com wrote: This is the first part of the lzo patch The lzo compressor is worse than gzip at compression, but faster at extraction. Here are some

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:58:18 +0200 Albin Tonnerre albin.tonne...@free-electrons.com wrote: This is the first part of the lzo patch Please pass this patch (and all others!) through scritps/checkpatch.pl. checkpatch reports a number of trivial errors which you wouldn't have included had you

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels

2009-08-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/04/2009 04:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: 0.24 seconds booting speedup sounds pretty thin. Adding a new decompression format will introduce more configuration/build/deployment complexities. How do we justify this? Keep in mind this may be out of a 3-5 second boot budget. -hpa