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2009-01-04	bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression	Alain Knaff	2	-0/+8
	Impact: Replaces inflate.c with a wrapper around zlib_inflate; new library code This is the first part of the bzip2/lzma patch The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster than bzip2. It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two compressors. The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by the udpcast project This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28 This part contains: - changed inflate.c to accomodate rest of patch - implementation of bzip2 compression (not used at this stage yet) - implementation of lzma compression (not used at this stage yet) - Makefile routines to support bzip2 and lzma kernel compression Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-10-11	[ZLIB]: Fix external builds of zlib_inflate code.	David S. Miller	3	-48/+50
	Move zlib_inflate_blob() out into it's own source file, infutil.c, so that things like the powerpc zImage builder in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile don't end up trying to compile it. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10	[ZLIB]: Move bnx2 driver gzip unpacker into zlib.	Denys Vlasenko	3	-13/+61
	Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-07	Fix ppp_deflate issues with recent zlib_inflate changes	Richard Purdie	1	-3/+5
	The last zlib_inflate update broke certain corner cases for ppp_deflate decompression handling. This patch fixes some logic to make things work properly again. Users other than ppp_deflate (the only Z_PACKET_FLUSH user) should be unaffected. Fixes bug 8405 (confirmed by Stefan) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Stefan Wenk <stefan.wenk@gmx.at> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-07-31	[PATCH] Fix ppc32 zImage inflate	Peter Korsgaard	1	-1/+4
	The recent zlib update (commit 4f3865fb57a04db7cca068fed1c15badc064a302) broke ppc32 zImage decompression as it tries to decompress to address zero and the updated zlib_inflate checks that strm->next_out isn't a null pointer. This little patch fixes it. [rpurdie@rpsys.net: add comment] Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27	[PATCH] zlib inflate: fix function definitions	Randy Dunlap	2	-10/+5
	Fix function definitions to be ANSI-compliant: lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c:68:1: warning: non-ANSI definition of function 'inflate_fast' lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c:33:1: warning: non-ANSI definition of function 'zlib_inflate_table' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26	move acknowledgment for Mark Adler to CREDITS	Adrian Bunk	1	-9/+0
	The place in the documentation of the Linux kernel to acknowledge contributions is the CREDITS file. Give Mark Adler an entry there instead of including a string in the kernel image. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-22	[PATCH] zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version	Richard Purdie	16	-1885/+1729
	Upgrade the zlib_inflate implementation in the kernel from a patched version 1.1.3/4 to a patched 1.2.3. The code in the kernel is about seven years old and I noticed that the external zlib library's inflate performance was significantly faster (~50%) than the code in the kernel on ARM (and faster again on x86_32). For comparison the newer deflate code is 20% slower on ARM and 50% slower on x86_32 but gives an approx 1% compression ratio improvement. I don't consider this to be an improvement for kernel use so have no plans to change the zlib_deflate code. Various changes have been made to the zlib code in the kernel, the most significant being the extra functions/flush option used by ppp_deflate. This update reimplements the features PPP needs to ensure it continues to work. This code has been tested on ARM under both JFFS2 (with zlib compression enabled) and ppp_deflate and on x86_32. JFFS2 sees an approx. 10% real world file read speed improvement. This patch also removes ZLIB_VERSION as it no longer has a correct value. We don't need version checks anyway as the kernel's module handling will take care of that for us. This removal is also more in keeping with the zlib author's wishes (http://www.zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq24) and I've added something to the zlib.h header to note its a modified version. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10	[PATCH] lib/zlib*: cleanups	Adrian Bunk	4	-2/+12
	This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - #if 0 the following unused functions: - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateSetDictionary - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateParams - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateCopy - zlib_inflate/infblock.c: zlib_inflate_set_dictionary - zlib_inflate/infblock.c: zlib_inflate_blocks_sync_point - zlib_inflate/inflate_sync.c: zlib_inflateSync - zlib_inflate/inflate_sync.c: zlib_inflateSyncPoint - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.c: zlib_deflateCopy - zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.c: zlib_deflateParams - zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.c: zlib_inflateSync - zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.c: zlib_inflateSyncPoint Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29	[PATCH] ppc64 boot: remove include from lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.c	Olaf Hering	1	-1/+0
	There is no need to include module.h in inflate.c Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-08-17	Revert unnecessary zlib_inflate/inftrees.c fix	Linus Torvalds	1	-1/+1
	It turns out that empty distance code tables are not an error, and that a compressed block with only literals can validly have an empty table and should not be flagged as a data error. Some old versions of gzip had problems with this case, but it does not affect the zlib code in the kernel. Analysis and explanations thanks to Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-05	[PATCH] Update in-kernel zlib routines	Tim Yamin	1	-1/+1
	These bugs have been fixed in the standard zlib for a while. See for example a) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00183.html b) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94584 Signed-off-by: Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	14	-0/+2031
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!