[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1 v2] build host lz4 to support lz4 compression in the kernel.
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Apr 1 20:37:52 UTC 2015
Dear Sagaert Johan,
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:12:33 +0200, Sagaert Johan wrote:
> +# lz4 kernel compression is only available on ARM and kernel >= 3.11
> +# we always build host-lz4 when the target is ARM.
> +# (how could i use LINUX_VERSION_PROBED to check for >=3.11 ?)
> +ifeq ($(BR2_arm),y)
> +LINUX_DEPENDENCIES += host-lz4
> +endif
No that still isn't good: LZ4 compressed kernel is available on ARM,
MIPS, x86 and S390 (we don't care about the latter in Buildroot).
No, I really think we need to add new options in linux/Config.in.
Thomas
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