From: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
To: emil.l.velikov@gmail.com
Cc: linux-firmware@kernel.org, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>,
Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 16/16] Makefile, copy-firmware: support xz/zstd compressed firmware
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 14:23:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACvgo506K7xqEjsQ5Gc1bWbodSzbp4TEtwuwfYv_9o2C7XQQdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230301-fixes-and-compression-v2-16-e2b71974e842@gmail.com>
On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 18:56, Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
<devnull+emil.l.velikov.gmail.com@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
>
> The kernel has supported compressed firmware for quite some time. So
> let's add a couple of targets to produce that. In practical terms this
> means it we'll use ~5x times less space on disk.
>
> Reportedly the amd ucode, needs to be uncompressed _within_ the
> initrd in order to work. Using compressed ucode in late load just works.
> Ideally this will be addressed by the initrd generators, but considering
> the files are tiny in size let's skip the compression.
>
> v2
> - commit message, skip compression for files annotated as Raw
>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
> ---
David, does the updated patch (or the rest of the series for that
matter) seem reasonable to you?
Josh, is there anything I can do to move this forward?
Thanks
Emil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-06 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-01 18:56 [PATCH RESEND v2 00/16] Misc fixes, sanity checks and xz/zstd compression Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 01/16] WHENCE: remove trailing white space Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 14:53 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 02/16] WHENCE: remove unnecessary filename quotation Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 14:56 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 17:53 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-07 18:01 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 03/16] check_whence, WHENCE, copy-firmware: escape filenames with spaces Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 14:58 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 17:30 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-07 18:00 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 20:48 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 04/16] WHENCE: remove duplicate File entries Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 15:01 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 05/16] WHENCE: comment out duplicate MediaTek firmware Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 15:02 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 17:19 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-07 18:08 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-07 20:57 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-10 12:42 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 06/16] check_whence: error on duplicate file entries Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-07 18:12 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 07/16] check_whence: error on directory listed as File Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-13 20:24 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-21 10:31 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-29 14:47 ` Emil Velikov
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 08/16] copy-firmware: remove non-applicable file presence test Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:39 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 09/16] check_whence: error if File: is actually a link Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:41 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 10/16] check_whence: error if symlinks are in-tree Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:45 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 11/16] copy-firmware: remove unreachable symlink workarounds Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 12/16] copy-firmware: quote deskdir to prevent word splitting Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:47 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 13/16] copy-firmware: tweak sed invocation Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-05-08 12:48 ` Josh Boyer
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 14/16] copy-firmware: quote the output of dirname Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 15/16] copy-firmware: silence the last shellcheck warnings Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-01 18:56 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 16/16] Makefile, copy-firmware: support xz/zstd compressed firmware Emil Velikov via B4 Relay
2023-03-06 14:23 ` Emil Velikov [this message]
2023-05-08 12:51 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 00/16] Misc fixes, sanity checks and xz/zstd compression Josh Boyer
2023-05-20 11:05 ` Emil Velikov
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