Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Stefan Richter]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> And Peter raised some valid points about the hardware requirements
>>> to run such tools ; I'm not sure the guys running Linux on their old
>>> Sparc-2 would like XZ only a lot.
>> It is not just student on old workstation. I'm trying to keep Linux
>> working on spitz PDA and kohjinsha subnotebook. Especially zaurus has
>> about power of old sparc two...
> 
> Do you actually require to download and unpack (and configure, build)
> the kernel sources from kernel.org to the PDA directly?  As Jean wrote,
> how does unpack time matter compared to build time?

PS:  It boils down to CPU time requirements.  For small memory systems,
there is the XZ Embedded decompressor.
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