[OLPC-devel] Re: [One Laptop Per Child] #70: Make Linuxbios use LZMA

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#70: Make Linuxbios use LZMA
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 Reporter:  rsmith     |        Owner:  rminnich
     Type:  task       |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  major      |    Milestone:  beta    
Component:  linuxbios  |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:             |  
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Changes (by hai):

 * cc: ebiederm at xmission.com (added)

Old description:

> Moving to LZMA for the LinuxBIOS compression scheme looks to get us back
> a lot of space.

New description:

 Moving to LZMA for the LinuxBIOS compression scheme looks to get us back a
 lot of space.

 This depends on fixing the bugs for nrv2b compressed payload.

Comment:

 Eric W. Biederman:[[BR]]

 The short summary was simply that:

 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
 > >    83:stream_skip() - overflowed source buffer
 >                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > (that means either rom, bytes or rom_end are wrong.)

 Was the only error message the rest appeared normal.  So without someone
 who could reproduce it we couldn't get farther.

 If this isn't resolved soon I will try and take a look this weekend.

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