Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel | From | René Rebe <> | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:17:13 +0200 |
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Hi,
On 22 Mar 2018, at 13:35, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:09:45PM +0100, René Rebe wrote: >> Should this currently just work without any arch change on e.g. >> ppc64, sparc64 et al.? I could do a test build and boot if that is >> of any value, ... > > Initrd: no reason it wouldn't work, although for anything related to the > boot process testing is a very good idea. If you test, you'd really want to > apply that printk patch I posted, it's too easy to accidentally get a silent > fallback to gzip or uncompressed. I wonder, perhaps such a printk could be > permanently added, at a low message priority?
zstd initrd worked on sparc64/sun4u - Ultra 30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10q2OxHAzQ4
Any chance we could get this initrd zstd support upstream?
> Kernel itself: needs per-arch porting, but it's not advertised in kconfig > outside x86 so that's not a problem. > > If you are knowledgeful about bootloaders on ppc64, sparc64, etc, such > information would be great.
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