Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:21:30 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] firmware: Add support for loading compressed files |
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On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:26:42AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Hi, > > this is a patch set to add the support for loading compressed firmware > files. > > The primary motivation is to reduce the storage size; e.g. currently > the amount of /lib/firmware on my machine counts up to 419MB, and this > can be reduced to 130MB file compression. No bad deal. > > The feature adds only fallback to the compressed file, so it should > work as it was as long as the normal firmware file is present. The > f/w loader decompresses the content, so that there is no change needed > in the caller side. > > Currently only XZ format is supported. A caveat is that the kernel XZ > helper code supports only CRC32 (or none) integrity check type, so > you'll have to compress the files via xz -C crc32 option. > > The patch set begins with a few other improvements and refactoring, > followed by the compression support. > > In addition to this, dracut needs a small fix to deal with the *.xz > files. > > Also, the latest patchset is found in topic/fw-decompress branch of my > sound.git tree: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
I've applied the first 3 patches to my tree, as they were sane and good cleanups.
I'll wait for a test-case and a resend of the second two before taking them {hint} :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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