499520 – sys-kernel/genkernel - add support for lz4 compression of initrds

Bug 499520 - sys-kernel/genkernel - add support for lz4 compression of initrds

Summary: sys-kernel/genkernel - add support for lz4 compression of initrds

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 553740

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2014-01-28 00:23 UTC by Austin S. Hemmelgarn
Modified:	2016-01-24 06:09 UTC (History)
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Description Austin S. Hemmelgarn 2014-01-28 00:23:12 UTC

Recent Linux kernels have in-kernel support for lz4 compressed initrd's.  Such high-speed decompression can greatly benefit systems where the memory or CPU speed (a number of low-end laptops with SSD's are like this).

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2016-01-24 06:09:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 553740 ***