From e76e1fdfa8f8dc1ea6699923cf5d92b5bee9c936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyungsik Lee Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:01:46 -0700 Subject: lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel Add support for extracting LZ4-compressed kernel images, as well as LZ4-compressed ramdisk images in the kernel boot process. Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Russell King Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Yann Collet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index ea1be003275..54d3fa5ae72 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -112,10 +112,13 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO bool +config HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 + bool + choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP - depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO || HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ @@ -182,6 +185,18 @@ config KERNEL_LZO size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. +config KERNEL_LZ4 + bool "LZ4" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZ4 + help + LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding. + A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at + . + + Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel + is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is + faster than LZO. + endchoice config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2