[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: Do not force GZIP initramfs compression

[Kelvin Cheung]

Agreed.

2012/10/10 Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>

> On 10/10/12 01:34, Valentine Barshak wrote:
>
>> Initramfs compression does not make much sense for the architectures
>> that support compressed kernel images because in this case the data
>> would be compressed twice. This will eventually result in a bigger
>> kernel image and time overhead when uncompressing it.
>> The only reason to use compressed initramfs is to reduce memory
>> usage when the kernel prepares rootfs, and both the unpacked
>> filesystem and initramfs.cpio are present in the memory.
>>
>> Buildroot attempts to force GZIP compression for initramfs,
>> however it doesn't always work because initramfs compression mode
>> depends on RAM disk compression supported by the kernel.
>> Thus, CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_**GZIP depends on CONFIG_RD_GZIP.
>> If CONFIG_RD_GZIP is not set, setting GZIP initramfs compression
>> will have no effect.
>>
>> Besides, the kernel also supports other compression methods,
>> like BZIP2, LZMA, XZ and LZO. Forcing the good old GZIP does not
>> really make much sense any more.
>>
>> This removes initramfs compression settings from Buildroot,
>> so that the default value preset in the kernel config is used,
>> which is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_**NONE.
>>
>> If initramfs compression is still needed, it can be set
>> in the kernel config (using make linux-menuconfig)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak<gvaxon at gmail.com>
>>
>
> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
>
>  I especially like the extensive commit message!
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
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Best Regards!
Kelvin Cheung
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