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| author | Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> | 2010-01-08 14:42:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-01-11 09:34:05 -0800 |
| commit | cacb246f8db2b9eba89d44a0f0dd4f6ed93bc113 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fff3df983d02c362ba90b334b77a7a93315455e | |
| parent | 13510997d600a076e064f10587a8f6d20f8fff41 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cacb246f8db2b9eba89d44a0f0dd4f6ed93bc113.tar.bz2 | |
Add LZO compression support for initramfs and old-style initrd
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/decompress.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/Kconfig | 26 |
4 files changed, 31 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig index 1cfe51628e1b..97b136ff117e 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig +++ b/lib/Kconfig @@ -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 # diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile index 347ad8db29d3..911b25aed1e7 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile +++ b/lib/Makefile @@ -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 diff --git a/lib/decompress.c b/lib/decompress.c index d2842f571674..a7606815541f 100644 --- a/lib/decompress.c +++ b/lib/decompress.c @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #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> @@ -22,6 +23,9 @@ #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]; @@ -32,6 +36,7 @@ static const struct compress_format { { {037, 0236}, "gzip", gunzip }, { {0x42, 0x5a}, "bzip2", bunzip2 }, { {0x5d, 0x00}, "lzma", unlzma }, + { {0x89, 0x4c}, "lzo", unlzo }, { {0, 0}, NULL, NULL } }; diff --git a/usr/Kconfig b/usr/Kconfig index 1c3039f28909..e2721f5a3504 100644 --- a/usr/Kconfig +++ b/usr/Kconfig @@ -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 @@ -108,16 +117,15 @@ config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP 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. @@ -128,7 +136,15 @@ config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZMA 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. + endchoice |