Re: Generic crc32c support in kernel?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 09:48:44PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:44:36PM -0700, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > Yeah, a lib would be the best place for this - as well as ext\dfs, iscsi
> > and sctp use crc32c, and there will probably be more users. Would also be
> > good to get this shared with userland via src/common
> 
> There are space/time trade offs and we might need a special small version
> for bootloaders. Innocent changes in this area made booting of compressed
> kernels take multiple minutes (instead of a few seconds) on some machines
> recently.

Can we please stop with that bogus myth? The crc32 was only a very small
part of the issue and the real issue, the seeking in the kernel image,
is still not resolved.

Joerg