Re: [PATCH] xz: make XZ_DEC_BCJ filters non-optional

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am okay with enabling all filters by default as long as there is a
> knob to allow turning achitecture specific BCJ filters off, as it
> barely makes sense for embedded systems to have a BCJ filter
> implementation for anything but the architecture you are running on.

And for x86? (oh no, I started promoting x86 ;-)

I once tried xz with an initrd on ARM. The kernel complained it couldn't
decompress the initrd, oops. I didn't investigate it at that time, but probably
I didn't have the x86 BCJ filter enabled, while I compressed the initrd on\
amd64.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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