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Add LZO compression support for initramfs and old-style initrd
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Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Albin Tonnerre authored and torvalds committed Jan 11, 2010
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions lib/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ config DECOMPRESS_BZIP2
config DECOMPRESS_LZMA
tristate

config DECOMPRESS_LZO
select LZO_DECOMPRESS
tristate

#
# Generic allocator support is selected if needed
#
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions lib/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS) += lzo/
lib-$(CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP) += decompress_inflate.o
lib-$(CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_BZIP2) += decompress_bunzip2.o
lib-$(CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA) += decompress_unlzma.o
lib-$(CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZO) += decompress_unlzo.o

obj-$(CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH) += textsearch.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP) += ts_kmp.o
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions lib/decompress.c
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#include <linux/decompress/bunzip2.h>
#include <linux/decompress/unlzma.h>
#include <linux/decompress/inflate.h>
#include <linux/decompress/unlzo.h>

#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
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#ifndef CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA
# define unlzma NULL
#endif
#ifndef CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZO
# define unlzo NULL
#endif

static const struct compress_format {
unsigned char magic[2];
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{ {037, 0236}, "gzip", gunzip },
{ {0x42, 0x5a}, "bzip2", bunzip2 },
{ {0x5d, 0x00}, "lzma", unlzma },
{ {0x89, 0x4c}, "lzo", unlzo },
{ {0, 0}, NULL, NULL }
};

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26 changes: 21 additions & 5 deletions usr/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -72,6 +72,15 @@ config RD_LZMA
Support loading of a LZMA encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
If unsure, say N.

config RD_LZO
bool "Support initial ramdisks compressed using LZO" if EMBEDDED
default !EMBEDDED
depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD
select DECOMPRESS_LZO
help
Support loading of a LZO encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer
If unsure, say N.

choice
prompt "Built-in initramfs compression mode" if INITRAMFS_SOURCE!=""
help
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bool "Gzip"
depends on RD_GZIP
help
The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is
the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both
compression and decompression) is the fastest.
The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance
between compression ratio and decompression speed.

config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_BZIP2
bool "Bzip2"
depends on RD_BZIP2
help
Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The initramfs
Decompression speed is slowest among the four. The initramfs
size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
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help
The most recent compression algorithm.
Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
two. Compression is slowest. The initramfs size is about 33%
three. Compression is slowest. The initramfs size is about 33%
smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.

config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZO
bool "LZO"
depends on RD_LZO
help
Its compression ratio is the poorest among the four. The kernel
size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
(both compression and decompression) is the fastest.

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