Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-30 Thread Andre Massena
Vanessa, you are of course correct. I went to the trouble of downloading the latest (r123) LZ4 tools source and compiled same. There is indeed an "-l" switch which is only visible when the "long help" (-H) argument is passed I am however, still in the dark as to how I get my kernel compres

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-30 Thread Vanessa Blöchinger
On 2014-10-30 07:53, Andre Massena wrote: > There is no "-l" (streaming) switch available on the r122 version of LZ4 I > am running. > > I have see the "-l" option mentioned in other (non-Debian) forums however. > > > Regards, > > > > Andre This is what i get in jessie's lz4, version 0.0~r122-2:

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Andre Massena
There is no "-l" (streaming) switch available on the r122 version of LZ4 I am running. I have see the "-l" option mentioned in other (non-Debian) forums however. Regards, Andre En réponse à Vanessa Blöchinger : > -- Début du message d'origine > > On

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Vanessa Blöchinger
On 2014-10-29 10:22, Andre Massena wrote: > Hello all, > > > having trawled through several search engines and perused various Debian > lists, I am still in the dark... > > I am running Debian Jessie (Kernel 3.17.1) on a Thinkpad X230. I would like > to use LZ4 to compress/decompress the kernel on

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Andre, Le mercredi, 29 octobre 2014, 11.43:18 Andre Massena a écrit : > I was not aware that Grub played a role in decompressing a kernal at > boot as that is a kernel function. > (…) Le mercredi, 29 octobre 2014, 13.21:37 Andre Massena a écrit : > No takers here? > (…) Le mercredi, 29 octobr

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Andre Massena
I cannot believe that nobody has tried to boot using LZ4 kernel compression/decompression. According to the (very sparse) documentation, this feature has been available since the end of 2013. Regards, Andre En réponse à Andre Massena : > -- Début du message d'origine ---

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Andre Massena
No takers here? I would have thought that compress/decompress at Boot would have been mildly interesting for some... Regards, Andre En réponse à Andre Massena : > -- Début du message d'origine > > John, > > > > I was not aware that Grub played a

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Andre Massena
John, I was not aware that Grub played a role in decompressing a kernal at boot as that is a kernel function. I am running Grub 2.02 if that matters. What I should have mentioned in my first post is that "gzip" (of course) and "xz" work flawlessly in decompressing at boot, if selected. Regar

Re: LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread John-John Tedro
On 29 Oct 2014 10:29, "Andre Massena" wrote: > > Hello all, > > > having trawled through several search engines and perused various Debian > lists, I am still in the dark... > > I am running Debian Jessie (Kernel 3.17.1) on a Thinkpad X230. I would like > to use LZ4 to compress/decompress the kern

LZ4 decompression on Boot

2014-10-29 Thread Andre Massena
Hello all, having trawled through several search engines and perused various Debian lists, I am still in the dark... I am running Debian Jessie (Kernel 3.17.1) on a Thinkpad X230. I would like to use LZ4 to compress/decompress the kernel on booting. As per apt-get, the release of liblz4-1 I am r