Architecturally, there's nothing preventing compressed images from working. Bootloaders built with support for the various compression methods can decompress and run the kernel. In practice, many bootloaders do not support compressed images, but kernels for those boards should just not be compressed. Tested on an MT7688 with U-Boot doing LZMA decompression of uImage. Signed-off-by: George Hilliard <thirtythreeforty@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index 4a5f5b0ee9a9..b286fbbd9699 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ config RALINK select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN select SYS_SUPPORTS_MIPS16 + select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK select CLKDEV_LOOKUP select ARCH_HAS_RESET_CONTROLLER -- 2.21.0
