From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:05:03 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] fs/common.mk: support lz4 compression In-Reply-To: <20171013191655.30427-1-peter@korsgaard.com> References: <20171013191655.30427-1-peter@korsgaard.com> Message-ID: <20171014000503.615d7fa6@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:16:52 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Similar to the other compressors. Notice that we use the -l (legacy format) > for Linux kernel initrd compatibility. > > Lz4 decompression is supported by the Linux kernel since 3.11. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard I don't know in which direction we want to go, but Yann has a series doing cleanups/improvements in the filesystem stuff, and as part of this, he is dropping the compression options: https://git.buildroot.org/~ymorin/git/buildroot/log/?h=yem/fs-2 (This has not been submitted so far I believe.) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com