linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] bzip2/lzma kernel compression

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:19:42 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@...oo.fr>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, alain@...ff.lu, sam@...nborg.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] bzip2/lzma kernel compression

lib/decompress_inflate.c:
+	/* skip over asciz filename */
+	if (zbuf[3] & 0x8) {
+		while (strm->next_in[0])
+			strm->next_in++;
+		strm->next_in++;
+	}
+	strm->avail_in = len - (strm->next_in - zbuf);

How about also allowing a GZIP comment (as specs) if (zbuf[3] & 0x10) ?
To test, generating a GZIP with comment is easily done by my gzcopy:
gzcopy -a="a comment" in.gz out.gz
found in this other bootloader, and can be downloaded at:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/g/gu/gujin/install-2.4.tar.gz/install/gzcopy?extract=true

Etienne.

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