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| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 8dfd094e6875..ea176e8edbdd 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -130,13 +130,16 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA bool +config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ + bool + config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO bool choice prompt "Kernel compression mode" default KERNEL_GZIP - depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO help The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. Several compression algorithms are available, which differ @@ -181,6 +184,21 @@ config KERNEL_LZMA two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. +config KERNEL_XZ + bool "XZ" + depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ + help + XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific + BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable + code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in + comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ + filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ + will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA. + + The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression + speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip + and LZO. Compression is slow. + config KERNEL_LZO bool "LZO" depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO |