Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel

[Adam Borowski]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:09:45PM +0100, Renà Rebe wrote:
> Should this currently just work without any arch change on e.g.
> ppc64, sparc64 et al.? I could do a test build and boot if that is
> of any value, ...

Initrd: no reason it wouldn't work, although for anything related to the
boot process testing is a very good idea.  If you test, you'd really want to
apply that printk patch I posted, it's too easy to accidentally get a silent
fallback to gzip or uncompressed.  I wonder, perhaps such a printk could be
permanently added, at a low message priority?

Kernel itself: needs per-arch porting, but it's not advertised in kconfig
outside x86 so that's not a problem.  

If you are knowledgeful about bootloaders on ppc64, sparc64, etc, such
information would be great.


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