diff options
| author | Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> | 2013-07-08 16:01:46 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-07-09 10:33:30 -0700 |
| commit | e76e1fdfa8f8dc1ea6699923cf5d92b5bee9c936 (patch) | |
| tree | d216233bcf256a8a3d8912cebbbf82032bb7b715 /init | |
| parent | cffb78b0e0b3a30b059b27a1d97500cf6464efa9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e76e1fdfa8f8dc1ea6699923cf5d92b5bee9c936.tar.gz lwn-e76e1fdfa8f8dc1ea6699923cf5d92b5bee9c936.zip | |
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 <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index ea1be003275a..54d3fa5ae723 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 + <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>. + + 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 |