On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 06:29:41PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote: > This patch set adds support for a ZSTD-compressed kernel and ramdisk > images in the kernel boot process. It only integrates the support with > x86, though the first patch is generic to all architectures.
I'm running this patch set since October on amd64 armhf arm64, no explosions -- besides the obvious when it's not applied yet I forget to reconfigure initramfs-tools. Which is getting tedious, so let's merge this already. :) I've tested initrd on all of these archs; here's a debug patch to check if you're actually using it. As for compressing the kernel itself: the second patch works as submitted (ie, x86 only). Porting it to other architectures is straightforward, but eg. on arm, most boards use u-boot which insists on decompressing the kernel by itself instead of passing control. EFI/grub should work, but I haven't tested that yet. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ A dumb species has no way to open a tuna can. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ A smart species invents a can opener. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ A master species delegates.
