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Commit ae03c499 authored by Alain Knaff's avatar Alain Knaff Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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bzip2/lzma: x86 kernel compression support



Impact: Replaces x86 kernel decompressor with new code

This is the third 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:
- support for new bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for x86

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent b172fd88
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