From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] firmware: Add the support for ZSTD-compressed firmware files
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:24:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210217132419.GN4332@42.do-not-panic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210127154939.13288-2-tiwai@suse.de>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:49:36PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Due to the popular demands on ZSTD, here is a patch to add a support
> of ZSTD-compressed firmware files via the direct firmware loader.
> It's just like XZ-compressed file support, providing a decompressor
> with ZSTD. Since ZSTD API can give the decompression size beforehand,
> the code is even simpler than XZ.
>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
It also occurs to me that having a simple like #define HAVE_FIRMWARE_COMPRESS_ZSTD
on include/linux/firmware.h would enable userspace to be aware (if they
have kernel sources) to determine if the kernels supports this format.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-17 13:31 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] firmware: Add ZSTD-compressed file support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-27 18:22 ` 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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