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 <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Yann Collet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Kyungsik Lee 2013-07-08 16:01:46 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit e76e1fdfa8
10 changed files with 243 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -90,6 +90,15 @@ config RD_LZO
Support loading of a LZO encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
If unsure, say N.
config RD_LZ4
bool "Support initial ramdisks compressed using LZ4" if EXPERT
default !EXPERT
depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD
select DECOMPRESS_LZ4
help
Support loading of a LZ4 encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
If unsure, say N.
choice
prompt "Built-in initramfs compression mode" if INITRAMFS_SOURCE!=""
help