[OLPC-devel] just verified: 2306 + olpc + linux kernel works.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 03:12 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> Now that makes very much sense. I have a version of the LZMA decompression
>> code which has been converted to Linux kernel coding style and will be
>> sending that for review soon.
>>
>> This leaves the problem that LZMA compression code is C++. Two ideas:
>> * call lzma compressor as usermode helper (nasty!)
>> * make lzma compressed files readonly (not modifiable, but deletable)
>>   and give userspace the ability to directly write compressed lzma files.
> 
> Neither of those options work too well. What would it take to rewrite it
> in C and make it conform to the Linux coding style too?

A very strong stomach. But maybe someone already did that and I'm just
not aware of it. You would still have giant memory allocations in the
kernel, though.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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