ARM: add xz kernel compression support

Michael Opdenacker michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Thu Feb 16 11:03:10 EST 2012


On 02/16/2012 04:55 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 03:54:15PM +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>> This patchset applies on Linus' tree
>>
>> It adds xz support to the ARM tree. x86 already has it, so let's have it too!
>> My benchmarks below show that xz is better than lzma in terms of image size
>> and uncompression time.
> Have you checked what's in my tree?  Have you checked patch 7001/2 ?
No, I haven't. Promise to do my homework better next time ;-)
Thanks for your time anyway.

Cheers,

Michael.

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