From cacb246f8db2b9eba89d44a0f0dd4f6ed93bc113 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albin Tonnerre Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:42:46 -0800 Subject: Add LZO compression support for initramfs and old-style initrd Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Russell King Acked-by: Russell King Cc: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- usr/Kconfig | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'usr/Kconfig') diff --git a/usr/Kconfig b/usr/Kconfig index 1c3039f..e2721f5 100644 --- a/usr/Kconfig +++ b/usr/Kconfig @@ -72,6 +72,15 @@ config RD_LZMA Support loading of a LZMA encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer If unsure, say N. +config RD_LZO + bool "Support initial ramdisks compressed using LZO" if EMBEDDED + default !EMBEDDED + depends on BLK_DEV_INITRD + select DECOMPRESS_LZO + help + Support loading of a LZO encoded initial ramdisk or cpio buffer + If unsure, say N. + choice prompt "Built-in initramfs compression mode" if INITRAMFS_SOURCE!="" help @@ -108,16 +117,15 @@ config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP bool "Gzip" depends on RD_GZIP help - The old and tried gzip compression. Its compression ratio is - the poorest among the 3 choices; however its speed (both - compression and decompression) is the fastest. + The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance + between compression ratio and decompression speed. config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_BZIP2 bool "Bzip2" depends on RD_BZIP2 help Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. - Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The initramfs + Decompression speed is slowest among the four. The initramfs size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. @@ -128,7 +136,15 @@ config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZMA help The most recent compression algorithm. Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other - two. Compression is slowest. The initramfs size is about 33% + three. Compression is slowest. The initramfs size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. +config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZO + bool "LZO" + depends on RD_LZO + help + Its compression ratio is the poorest among the four. The kernel + size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed + (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. + endchoice -- cgit v1.1