Re: [PATCH 0/5] Firmware loader support for ZSTD-compressed files

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Firmware loader support for ZSTD-compressed files
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hv8v1tygg.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YmGKxb6XILkRqucZ@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:48:05 +0200,
Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this is a revised patch set for RFC I posted some time ago (*).
> > Since the ZSTD usage became much more popular now, it makes sense to
> > have the consistent (de)compression support in the kernel, also for
> > the firmware files.  This patch set adds the support for ZSTD-
> > compressed firmware files as well as the extension of selftests, in
> > addition to a couple of relevant fixes in selftests.
> > 
> > (*) https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210127154939.13288-1-tiwai@suse.de
> 
> Russ had posted a set of patches which this likely needs to be
> rebased on top of. Russ however has to address one kernel splat
> found by 0day, so I'd expect a new set and then perhaps this can
> be based on that?

Sure, it should be fine, as the code change there is quite minimal.
Let me know if the base branch becomes ready.

thanks,

Takashi

> 
> [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220419231658.664388-1-russell.h.weight@intel.com    
> 
>   Luis
> 