litmus-rt.git - The LITMUS^RT kernel.

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*	bzip2/lzma/gzip: pre-boot malloc doesn't return NULL on failure	Phillip Lougher	2009-12-15
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	The trivial malloc implementation used in the pre-boot environment by the decompressors returns a bad pointer on failure (falling through after calling error). This is doubly wrong - the callers expect malloc to return NULL on failure, second the error function is intended to be used by the decompressors to propagate errors to their callers. The decompressors have no access to any state set by the error function. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> LKML-Reference: <4b26b1ef.hIInb2AYPMtImAJO%phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
*	bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression	Alain Knaff	2009-01-04
	Impact: Replaces inflate.c with a wrapper around zlib_inflate; new library code This is the first part of the bzip2/lzma patch The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster than bzip2. It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two compressors. The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by the udpcast project This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28 This part contains: - changed inflate.c to accomodate rest of patch - implementation of bzip2 compression (not used at this stage yet) - implementation of lzma compression (not used at this stage yet) - Makefile routines to support bzip2 and lzma kernel compression Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>