[coreboot] [PATCH] split tar & cpio

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Sun Feb 8 00:42:31 CET 2009


On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I thought it would be a good idea to split tar & cpio into separate modules
> to save some space and make things easier to figure out for the users.  I
> managed to do this without duplicating code, with a bit of pre-processor
> magic.
> 
> The saved size is not much, though (~400 bytes).  But users looking for tar
> will find it more easily.  How do you feel about this? Is it worth it?

Committed.

coreboot users: if you're using tar to generate GRUB's memdisk image, with
latest svn you need to include tar.mod instead of cpio.mod.

-- 
Robert Millan

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