Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Add multiple compression image format.

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Wed Nov 06 2019 - 12:47:57 EST


On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:06:52 PST (-0800), Atish Patra wrote:
Currently, there is only support for .gz compression type
for generating kernel Image.

Add support for other compression methods(lzma, lz4, lzo, bzip2)
that helps in generating a even smaller kernel image. Image.gz
will still be the default compressed image.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/boot/Makefile | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/boot/Makefile b/arch/riscv/boot/Makefile
index 0990a9fdbe5d..88356650c992 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/boot/Makefile
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ $(obj)/Image: vmlinux FORCE
$(obj)/Image.gz: $(obj)/Image FORCE
$(call if_changed,gzip)

+$(obj)/Image.bz2: $(obj)/Image FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,bzip2)
+
+$(obj)/Image.lz4: $(obj)/Image FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,lz4)
+
+$(obj)/Image.lzma: $(obj)/Image FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,lzma)
+
+$(obj)/Image.lzo: $(obj)/Image FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,lzo)
+
install:
$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/$(src)/install.sh $(KERNELRELEASE) \
$(obj)/Image System.map "$(INSTALL_PATH)"

Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>