Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-04 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 04.02.10 00:52, schrieb Christos Zoulas: In article 20100203170030.ga7...@panix.com, Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:33:59PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:39AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: It's a tiny, very very

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:39AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. Christos wants it for bootblocks, among other things (or so he says -- ask him). For boot blocks or boot loaders? I question the use for e.g. compressing the kernel as that is

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Hoka
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:04:22PM +1100, matthew green wrote:    Update of /cvsroot/src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist    In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv22361    Log Message:    Import liblzf version 3.5

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Adam Hoka wrote: It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. ?Christos wants it for bootblocks, among other things (or so he says -- ask him). U-boot and grub2 can boot lzma compressed images, and its also more efficient, what about lza? I

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:33:59PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:39AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. Christos wants it for bootblocks, among other things (or so he says -- ask him). For boot blocks or

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:42:34AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: The public domain C implementation of lzma is well over half a megabyte and appears to require threads. It seems extremely silly to me that you'd pick that particular straw man while complaining about system bloat. XZ's

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:19:57PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: so that the size advantage of the decoder doesn't matter too much. I don't mind a fast compressor for streaming applications, but those should exist and named as such. Well, certainly I named some of mine. I can't check my

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article 20100203170030.ga7...@panix.com, Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:33:59PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:39AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. Christos wants it

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:52:15PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: I still think it is useful and it should stay, just because the code is so simple. It is not the best compressor, but it is a fast and easy to understand one. If you don't think so, I'll remove it. Like I said, I don't have a

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:26:22PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Like I said, I don't have a problem with a fast, small compressor. But it would strongly help to actually have a use case. As file format, I object it, e.g. it seems to

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Hamsik
On Feb,Thursday 4 2010, at 1:45 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:26:22PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Like I said, I don't have a problem with a fast, small compressor. But it would strongly help to actually

CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-02 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
Module Name:src Committed By: tls Date: Wed Feb 3 03:50:45 UTC 2010 Update of /cvsroot/src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv22361 Log Message: Import liblzf version 3.5 (2-clause BSD licensed by Marc Lehmann) Status: Vendor Tag:

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-02 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:04:22PM +1100, matthew green wrote: Update of /cvsroot/src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv22361 Log Message: Import liblzf version 3.5 (2-clause BSD licensed by Marc Lehmann) what's liblzf, and why do

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hamsik
On Feb,Wednesday 3 2010, at 6:44 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:04:22PM +1100, matthew green wrote: Update of /cvsroot/src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv22361 Log Message: Import liblzf version 3.5 (2-clause BSD

Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

2010-02-02 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:39:29AM +0100, Adam Hamsik wrote: Where was this change discussed ? Why were are importing sourcecode without any users in base system(look at Lua case). If time permits is quite vague, if you will not have a time who will plug this lib to base ? I imported it