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

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Message-Id: <8DE2BD14-0C9C-43AF-B9B7-F760F8434B6B@exactcode.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:15:45 +0200
From:   René Rebe <rene@...ctcode.com>
To:     Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@...onical.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel

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@...ctcode.com> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> 
> On 09 Jul 2018, at 20:04, Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com> wrote:
> 
>>> On Mar 21, 2018, at 6:29 PM, Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com> 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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