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 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

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

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. i

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

2010-02-03 Thread Jason Thorpe
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 have no real header etc. Does it even really define a file forma

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 p

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

2010-02-03 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <20100203170030.ga7...@panix.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon 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 >> > for b

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

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 li

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

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

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 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-cla

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

2010-02-02 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 b

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

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

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

2010-02-02 Thread matthew green
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 we want it in base? .mrg.