Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:09:48 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] firmware: Add ZSTD-compressed file support |
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:49:35PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that ZSTD format is getting popular, and I've been asked > about the firmware loader support. So I took a quick glance, and it > turned out that it's fairly easy thanks to the existing ZSTD API. > Now high time to submit something. > > The first patch adds a new Kconfig CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD and > the corresponding decompression function to the firmware loader code. > For the already supported XZ-compression, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_XZ > is added to make it selectable explicitly, too. > > The rest three patches are for selftest: a cleanup, a fix and the > additional support of ZSTD format. > > Currently, I have no idea whether any distro would use ZSTD files for > firmware files in near future, though. That's the reason of this > patch set being an RFC for now.
Looks sane enough to me, if we have a real user, I see no reason why to not merge this.
thanks,
greg k-h
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