Re: [PATCH 0/5] firmware: Add support for loading compressed files

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:21:30 +0200,
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:26:42AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this is a patch set to add the support for loading compressed firmware
> > files.
> > 
> > The primary motivation is to reduce the storage size; e.g. currently
> > the amount of /lib/firmware on my machine counts up to 419MB, and this
> > can be reduced to 130MB file compression.  No bad deal.
> > 
> > The feature adds only fallback to the compressed file, so it should
> > work as it was as long as the normal firmware file is present.  The
> > f/w loader decompresses the content, so that there is no change needed
> > in the caller side.
> > 
> > Currently only XZ format is supported.  A caveat is that the kernel XZ
> > helper code supports only CRC32 (or none) integrity check type, so
> > you'll have to compress the files via xz -C crc32 option.
> > 
> > The patch set begins with a few other improvements and refactoring,
> > followed by the compression support.
> > 
> > In addition to this, dracut needs a small fix to deal with the *.xz
> > files.
> > 
> > Also, the latest patchset is found in topic/fw-decompress branch of my
> > sound.git tree:
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
> 
> I've applied the first 3 patches to my tree, as they were sane and good
> cleanups.

Great, thanks!

> I'll wait for a test-case and a resend of the second two before taking
> them {hint} :)

The patch for test_firmware was already sent, and it includes the test
of the compressed firmware file.  In anyway, I'm going to resubmit the
rest tomorrow.


Takashi