From 24fa0402a9b6a537e87e38341e78b7da86486846 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:01:22 -0800 Subject: decompressors: add XZ decompressor module In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that got superseded by the .xz format. Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by XZ Utils. These patches add support for XZ decompression into the kernel. Most of the code is as is from XZ Embedded . It was written for the Linux kernel but is usable in other projects too. Advantages of XZ over the current LZMA code in the kernel: - Nice API that can be used by other kernel modules; it's not limited to kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. - Integrity check support (CRC32) - BCJ filters improve compression of executable code on certain architectures. These together with LZMA2 can produce a few percent smaller kernel or Squashfs images than plain LZMA without making the decompression slower. This patch: Add the main decompression code (xz_dec), testing module (xz_dec_test), wrapper script (xz_wrap.sh) for the xz command line tool, and documentation. The xz_dec module is enough to have a usable XZ decompressor e.g. for Squashfs. Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alain Knaff Cc: Albin Tonnerre Cc: Phillip Lougher Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig index 3116aa631af..2b8f8540d67 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig +++ b/lib/Kconfig @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ config LZO_COMPRESS config LZO_DECOMPRESS tristate +source "lib/xz/Kconfig" + # # These all provide a common interface (hence the apparent duplication with # ZLIB_INFLATE; DECOMPRESS_GZIP is just a wrapper.) -- cgit v1.2.3