On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:09:45PM +0100, René 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. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ A dumb species has no way to open a tuna can. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ A smart species invents a can opener. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ A master species delegates.
