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Date:   Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:24:19 +0000
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] firmware: Add the support for ZSTD-compressed
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:49:36PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Due to the popular demands on ZSTD, here is a patch to add a support
> of ZSTD-compressed firmware files via the direct firmware loader.
> It's just like XZ-compressed file support, providing a decompressor
> with ZSTD.  Since ZSTD API can give the decompression size beforehand,
> the code is even simpler than XZ.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

It also occurs to me that having a simple like #define HAVE_FIRMWARE_COMPRESS_ZSTD
on include/linux/firmware.h would enable userspace to be aware (if they
have kernel sources) to determine if the kernels supports this format.

  Luis