linux-stable/Documentation/x86
Lasse Collin 303148045a x86: support XZ-compressed kernel
This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:25 -08:00
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i386 x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386 2008-07-22 15:34:38 -04:00
x86_64 x86: Always use irq stacks 2010-06-29 12:12:59 +02:00
00-INDEX Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir 2009-07-10 19:10:32 -07:00
boot.txt x86: support XZ-compressed kernel 2011-01-13 08:03:25 -08:00
earlyprintk.txt USB: ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgp 2009-09-23 06:46:39 -07:00
exception-tables.txt Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdir 2009-07-10 19:10:32 -07:00
mtrr.txt documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir 2008-07-28 14:46:49 +02:00
pat.txt x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes 2008-12-19 15:40:31 -08:00
usb-legacy-support.txt x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386 2008-07-22 15:34:38 -04:00
zero-page.txt x86, olpc: Add support for calling into OpenFirmware 2010-06-18 14:54:36 -07:00