kbuild: allow compressors (gzip, bzip2, lzma) to take multiple inputs

2009-05-09T00:16:22Z

Allow the compression commands in Kbuild (i.e. gzip, bzip2, lzma) to take multiple input files and emit the concatenated compressed output. This avoids an intermediate step when a kernel image is built from multiple components, such as the relocatable x86-32 kernel. Sam Ravnborg integrated the bin_size script into the Makefile. [ Impact: new build feature, not yet used ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg

bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression

2009-01-04T23:53:34Z

Impact: Replaces inflate.c with a wrapper around zlib_inflate; new library code This is the first part of the bzip2/lzma patch The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster than bzip2. It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two compressors. The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by the udpcast project This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28 This part contains: - changed inflate.c to accomodate rest of patch - implementation of bzip2 compression (not used at this stage yet) - implementation of lzma compression (not used at this stage yet) - Makefile routines to support bzip2 and lzma kernel compression Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

linux/scripts/bin_size, branch master

kbuild: allow compressors (gzip, bzip2, lzma) to take multiple inputs

bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression