Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel

From: René Rebe
Date: Fri Aug 17 2018 - 12:43:56 EST


Hey,

is there any mainline future for this zstd support? Currently my most favourite compressor for this, and for what it’s worth zstd/initrd now even tested on #t2sde / hp/pa-risc, … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHplOJxnIHk

René

On 10 Jul 2018, at 00:13, René Rebe <rene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> On 09 Jul 2018, at 20:04, Nick Terrell <terrelln@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> On Mar 21, 2018, at 6:29 PM, Nick Terrell <terrelln@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> This patch set adds support for a ZSTD-compressed kernel and ramdisk
>>> images in the kernel boot process. It only integrates the support with
>>> x86, though the first patch is generic to all architectures.
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there anything blocking this from getting merged?
>> Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help move this patch forward.
>
> works fine on my side, initrd test booted on i486, x86-64, ppc, ppc64 and
> sparc64. For testing on mips64 I would first need to re-base the Octane^1
> patch-set ;-)
>
> Greetings,
> René
>
> ^1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU_RV8uoTIo
>
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