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For historical reasons, the legacy decompressor code on various architectures supports 7 different compression types for the compressed kernel image. EFI zboot is not a compression library museum, and so the options can be limited to what is likely to be useful in practice: - GZIP is tried and tested, and is still one of the fastest at decompression time, although the compression ratio is not very high; moreover, Fedora is already shipping EFI zboot kernels for arm64 that use GZIP, and QEMU implements direct support for it when booting a kernel without firmware loaded; - ZSTD has a very high compression ratio (although not the highest), and is almost as fast as GZIP at decompression time. Reducing the number of options makes it less of a hassle for other consumers of the EFI zboot format (such as QEMU today, and kexec in the future) to support it transparently without having to carry 7 different decompression libraries. Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.