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

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:35:14 -0800 (PST)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Add multiple compression image format.

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, 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@....com>

Thanks, queued for v5.5-rc1.


- Paul