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[153.226.109.6]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-241e89771e2sm220358985ad.88.2025.08.08.18.56.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:56:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Palmer To: geert@linux-m68k.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Palmer Subject: [PATCH] m68k: Add target for lz4 compressed vmlinux Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 10:55:29 +0900 Message-ID: <20250809015529.373693-1-daniel@0x0f.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Traditionally gzip (/bzip?) has been the compressed image format but its a pain to decompress because its very hard to load and decompress it in chunks which you need to do if you don't have enough memory to load the whole kernel image and decompress it somewhere else. With lz4 you can set a block size, read it from the header, and then you only need memory for a single block and the decompressed kernel. I use lz4 compressed images on 68000 with 8MB of ram and MVME147 with 16MB. I want to use lz4 in my fork of EMILE to boot m68k macs because streaming decompress of gzip is painful. Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer --- arch/m68k/Makefile | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/m68k/Makefile b/arch/m68k/Makefile index 0abcf994ce55..a56e853037c0 100644 --- a/arch/m68k/Makefile +++ b/arch/m68k/Makefile @@ -124,6 +124,17 @@ else $(KBZIP2) -1c vmlinux >vmlinux.bz2 endif =20 +vmlinux.lz4: vmlinux + +ifndef CONFIG_KGDB + cp vmlinux vmlinux.tmp + $(STRIP) vmlinux.tmp + $(LZ4) -z9f vmlinux.tmp vmlinux.lz4 + rm vmlinux.tmp +else + $(LZ4) -z9f vmlinux vmlinux.lz4 +endif + CLEAN_FILES +=3D vmlinux.gz vmlinux.bz2 =20 archheaders: --=20 2.50.0