[PATCH v3 3/3] ARM: socfpga: xload: compress image with xz

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Thu Mar 5 04:56:15 PST 2026



On 3/5/26 1:46 PM, David Picard wrote:
> Compress the image of the first stage of Barebox with xz because it
> features a good compression ratio.
> as 64KiB.
> 
> Rationale: on some devices, the image has to fit in a ROM as small

That commit message got gobbled up.

It should read:

Rationale: on some devices, the image has to fit in a ROM as small
as 64KiB.


> Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: David Picard <david.picard at clermont.in2p3.fr>
> ---
>  arch/arm/configs/socfpga-xload_defconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/socfpga-xload_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/socfpga-xload_defconfig
> index 22bab8d607..ec966c91a8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/socfpga-xload_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/socfpga-xload_defconfig
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ CONFIG_ARM_OPTIMZED_STRING_FUNCTIONS=y
>  # CONFIG_ARM_EXCEPTIONS is not set
>  CONFIG_NAME="socfpga-xload_defconfig"
>  # CONFIG_MEMINFO is not set
> +CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_XZKERN=y
>  CONFIG_MMU=y
>  CONFIG_MALLOC_SIZE=0x0
>  CONFIG_MALLOC_DUMMY=y
> 

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