Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:07:24 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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Hi!
> As a matter of fact, I am advocating the use of xz while I don't have > it installed on most of my machines. I really don't see this as a > blocker.
Eh?
Making many people around the world install uncommon tool is not something that should be done lightly.
> I have an old, slow machine here which I am going to use to perform > some real world testing, and I'll post the results when I'm done. But I > suspect that building a kernel on this machine, even a small one with > just the drivers it needs, will take much longer than unpacking the > sources. So anyone worrying about performance would rather rely on > cross-compilation, and in turn can afford whatever decompression tool > is needed.
On zaurus, kernel compilation takes 4 hours. (I.e. "one night"). So that one is ... well ... done overnight.
Untar is something I normally wait for, since you need to run (interactive) oldconfig after that. Pavel
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