[Buildroot] [PATCH] add lzop dependency

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Sep 28 13:48:35 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Yegor" == Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1 at visionsystems.de> writes:

Hi,

 >> Lzop isn't that common and it's only needed for a fairly specific setup,
 >> wouldn't it make more sense to build it if needed using the host
 >> infrastructure we have instead?

 Yegor> Yes, it makes sense. I'll rewrite the patch. What do you think
 Yegor> about letting user to specify kernel compression:

That makes sense on ARM when zImage is selected, but might not for other
archs. From a quick look in the kernel sources it seems to be available
on:

arm, blackfin, mips, s390, sh, x86

So atleast ppc, avr32 and sparc are missing.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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