
19 Nov
2009
19 Nov
'09
1:24 p.m.
Add lzop decompression support to the existing lzo bitstream handling (think gzip versus zlib), and support it for uImage decompression if CONFIG_LZO is enabled.
Lzop doesn't compress as good as gzip (~10% worse), but decompression is very fast (~0.7s faster here on a slow ppc). The lzop decompression code is based on Albin Tonnerre's recent ARM Linux lzo support patch.
Perhaps you want to have a look at the patch I just sent: [PATCH RFC] zlib: Optimize decompression
Jocke