[FE training-materials-updates] Kernel cross-compiling lab: use XZ instead of LZMA

Michael Opdenacker michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 20 10:33:22 CET 2013


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commit f899e11f78364119ac2e45656acc5d4f022086e8
Author: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 20 10:31:36 2013 +0100

    Kernel cross-compiling lab: use XZ instead of LZMA
    
    - LZMA no longer interesting, if you want the best compression
      XZ is better, and probably not much slower
    
    Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>


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 .../sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex              |    2 +-
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diff --git a/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex b/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex
index e688b74..914fe33 100644
--- a/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex
+++ b/labs/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling/sysdev-kernel-cross-compiling.tex
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ In the kernel configuration :
   sources.). You will have to review dependencies to be able to disable
   this kernel configuration setting. 
 \item As an experiment, let's change the kernel compression from Gzip
-  to LZMA. This compression algorithm is far more efficient than Gzip,
+  to XZ. This compression algorithm is far more efficient than Gzip,
   in terms of compression ratio, at the expense of a higher
   decompression time.
 \end{itemize}



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