Re: [PATCH 0/5] Firmware loader support for ZSTD-compressed files

Luis Chamberlain
2022-04-21T16:48:13Z

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a revised patch set for RFC I posted some time ago (*).
> Since the ZSTD usage became much more popular now, it makes sense to
> have the consistent (de)compression support in the kernel, also for
> the firmware files. This patch set adds the support for ZSTD-
> compressed firmware files as well as the extension of selftests, in
> addition to a couple of relevant fixes in selftests.
>
> (*) https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210127154939.13288-1-tiwai@suse.de

Russ had posted a set of patches which this likely needs to be
rebased on top of. Russ however has to address one kernel splat
found by 0day, so I'd expect a new set and then perhaps this can
be based on that?

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220419231658.664388-1-russell.h.weight@intel.com

Luis