[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] fs/common.mk: support lz4 compression

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 13 22:05:03 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:16:52 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Similar to the other compressors.  Notice that we use the -l (legacy format)
> for Linux kernel initrd compatibility.
> 
> Lz4 decompression is supported by the Linux kernel since 3.11.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

I don't know in which direction we want to go, but Yann has a series
doing cleanups/improvements in the filesystem stuff, and as part of
this, he is dropping the compression options:

  https://git.buildroot.org/~ymorin/git/buildroot/log/?h=yem/fs-2

(This has not been submitted so far I believe.)

Thomas
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