[arch-projects] [mkinitcpio] [PATCH] lsinitcpio: Add zstd decompression support
Jelle van der Waa
jelle at vdwaa.nl
Tue Apr 30 13:19:35 UTC 2019
Add detection support for zstd compressed initramfs, the magic number of
zstd is defined as 0xFD2FB528.
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compression_format.md
Signed-off-by: Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl>
---
lsinitcpio | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lsinitcpio b/lsinitcpio
index bcb4a19..d44a714 100755
--- a/lsinitcpio
+++ b/lsinitcpio
@@ -131,6 +131,12 @@ detect_filetype() {
return
fi
+ read -rd '' bytes < <(hexdump -n 4 -e '"%x"' "$1")
+ if [[ $bytes = 'fd2fb528' ]]; then
+ echo 'zstd'
+ return
+ fi
+
# still nothing? hrmm, maybe the user goofed and it's a kernel
if kver "$1" >/dev/null; then
die '%s is a kernel image, not an initramfs image!' "$1"
--
2.21.0
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