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This patch adds support for the LZ4 decompression algorithm to libpayload. It's what all the cool kids are using for decompression these days and has many interesting advantages over LZMA (and everything else I know of): blazing fast decompression (20(!) times faster than LZMA, twice as fast as LZO on my Cortex-A72), no memory requirements on decompression, and possibly in-place decompression support. It pays for that with a lower compression ratio (about 50% larger compressed size than LZMA, 10% larger than LZO for an ARM64 Linux kernel binary), but the boot time math still works in its favor for our IO speeds. This patch only adds the raw decompression functions for use by external payloads, we can later try integrating them in CBFS. It copies the decompression code itself unmodified from the upstream LZ4 library at github.com/Cyan4973/lz4 which will hopefully make it easy to update. The frame format parsing is reimplemented since the upstream version looks unnecessarily complex and unreadable for our needs. BRANCH=smaug BUG=chrome-os-partner:32184 TEST=With other patches, booted ARM64 kernel that got compressed from 15M to 5.1M and decompresses in 44ms. Change-Id: I65bdc4b2b19bd51c7b7e17a4e4b79da301a2a014 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org> Original-Commit-Id: f8a1fc996d5b0234d07f567fa8163d0f802d5144 Original-Change-Id: I15c0620da05561ade2552b15ffdf6bb3afd7eb26 Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/282743 Original-Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@google.com> Original-Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/10845 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload. With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required. coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS. Payloads -------- After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any desired "payload" can be started by coreboot. See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads. Supported Hardware ------------------ coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards. For details please consult: * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices Build Requirements ------------------ * gcc / g++ * make Optional: * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation) * iasl (for targets with ACPI support) * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets) * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig') * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers) Building coreboot ----------------- Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details. Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware ------------------------------------------------ If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run coreboot virtually in QEMU. Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details. Website and Mailing List ------------------------ Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website: http://www.coreboot.org You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list: http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist Copyright and License --------------------- The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details. coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual source files for details. This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.