Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Enable armthumb BCJ filter for Thumb-2 kernel

From: Lasse Collin
Date: Sun Nov 21 2021 - 16:43:28 EST


On 2021-11-20 Jubin Zhong wrote:
> xz_wrap.sh use $SRCARCH to detect the BCJ filter. However, assigning
> arm BCJ filter to Thumb-2 kernel is not optimal. In my case, about 5%
> decrease of image size is observed with armthumb BCJ filter:
>
> Test results:
> hardware: QEMU emulator version 3.1.0
> config: vexpress_defconfig with THUMB2_KERNEL & KERNEL_XZ on
> arm BCJ: 4029808
> armthumb BCJ: 3827280
>
> Choose armthumb BCJ filter for Thumb-2 kernel to make smaller images.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jubin Zhong <zhongjubin@xxxxxxxxxx>

I still didn't test it but it looks good to me.

Acked-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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Lasse Collin