[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Fri Jun 12 12:50:13 EDT 2009


Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 schrieb Dan McGee:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Tobias Powalowski<t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > kernel26-2.6.30-2
> > please signoff, both arches.
> > And tell me your opinion about madwifi and openswan-klisp
> >
> > Arch Linux changes:
> > - changed to lzma kernel compression
>
> Any real reason for this besides the fact that it is newer and sexier?
> It is also slower, and I doubt we have many Arch users that need the
> benefits of a slightly smaller compressed kernel on disk (esp since it
> all needs to be unpacked in memory anyway).
Hrm talked to thomas about it, if it's an issue of bootup speed we can revert 
this again, imho it's not that different at least on my machine.
Anyone else who has objections in using lzma instead of gzip compressed 
kernel?

greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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