Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] firmware: Add the support for ZSTD-compressed firmware files

Luis Chamberlain
2021-02-17T13:31:50Z

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:49:36PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Due to the popular demands on ZSTD, here is a patch to add a support
> of ZSTD-compressed firmware files via the direct firmware loader.
> It's just like XZ-compressed file support, providing a decompressor
> with ZSTD. Since ZSTD API can give the decompression size beforehand,
> the code is even simpler than XZ.
>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

It also occurs to me that having a simple like #define HAVE_FIRMWARE_COMPRESS_ZSTD
on include/linux/firmware.h would enable userspace to be aware (if they
have kernel sources) to determine if the kernels supports this format.

Luis