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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] firmware: Add ZSTD-compressed file support
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:09:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBGeXDTEy8myghot@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210127154939.13288-1-tiwai@suse.de>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:49:35PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it seems that ZSTD format is getting popular, and I've been asked
> about the firmware loader support.  So I took a quick glance, and it
> turned out that it's fairly easy thanks to the existing ZSTD API.
> Now high time to submit something.
> 
> The first patch adds a new Kconfig CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD and
> the corresponding decompression function to the firmware loader code.
> For the already supported XZ-compression, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_XZ
> is added to make it selectable explicitly, too.
> 
> The rest three patches are for selftest: a cleanup, a fix and the
> additional support of ZSTD format.
> 
> Currently, I have no idea whether any distro would use ZSTD files for
> firmware files in near future, though.  That's the reason of this
> patch set being an RFC for now.

Looks sane enough to me, if we have a real user, I see no reason why to
not merge this.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-27 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-27 15:49 [PATCH RFC 0/4] firmware: Add ZSTD-compressed file support Takashi Iwai
2021-01-27 15:49 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] firmware: Add the support for ZSTD-compressed firmware files Takashi Iwai
2021-02-17 13:16   ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-02-17 13:22     ` Takashi Iwai
2021-02-17 13:24   ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-02-17 13:34     ` Takashi Iwai
2021-02-17 14:17       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-17 14:21         ` Takashi Iwai
2021-01-27 15:49 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] selftests: firmware: Simplify test patterns Takashi Iwai
2021-01-27 15:49 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] selftest: firmware: Fix the request_firmware_into_buf() test for XZ format Takashi Iwai
2021-01-27 15:49 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] selftest: firmware: Add ZSTD compressed file tests Takashi Iwai
2021-01-27 17:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-01-27 18:22   ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] firmware: Add ZSTD-compressed file support Hideki Yamane
2022-01-27 18:41     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-28  0:33       ` Hideki Yamane
2022-01-28  6:54         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-28  8:13           ` Takashi Iwai
2022-02-01 17:36             ` Hideki Yamane
2022-02-02 10:56               ` Takashi Iwai

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