linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] powerpc/boot: Add bzip2 support for uImage

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Message-ID: <20190425143706.GA28476@angband.pl>
Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:37:06 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] powerpc/boot: Add bzip2 support for uImage

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 02:20:43PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> This patch allows to generate bzip2 compressed uImage

Please don't add bzip2 support, that's a waste of your time as we're trying
to remove it kernel-wide.  There's a patchset to retire compressors beaten
by alternatives on the whole speed-to-size curve; reposting it is overdue.

It does:
* add ZSTD (fast and strong)
* remove BZIP2 (obsolete, only user in kernel)
* remove LZMA (redundant with XZ, uses a private copy of its library)
* makes Kconfig prose talk badly about LZO (used elsewhere in the kernel)

I believe only three compressors are worth using here: XZ, ZSTD, LZ4.
GZIP must stay because of ubiquitous support, the rest should go.

> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ config PPC
> +	select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2		if DEFAULT_UIMAGE
> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ all: $(obj)/zImage
> +compress-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2)   := CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2
> @@ -259,6 +260,7 @@ endif
> +compressor-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2) := bz2
> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
> -        [ "$1" != "gz" -o "$1" != "xz" -o "$1" != "lzma" -o "$1" != "none" ] || usage
> +        [ "$1" != "gz" -o "$1" != "xz" -o "$1" != "lzma" -o "$1" != "bz2" -o "$1" != "none" ] || usage
> @@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
> +	if [ $uboot_comp = "bz2" ]; then
> +		uboot_comp=bzip2
> +	fi
> @@ -377,6 +380,9 @@ if [ -z "$cacheit" -o ! -f "$vmz$compression" -o "$vmz$compression" -ot "$kernel
> +    .bz2)
> +        bzip2 -f "$vmz.$$"
> +	;;


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