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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8dfd094e6875..ea176e8edbdd 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -130,13 +130,16 @@ config HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
config HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
bool
+config HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
+ bool
+
config HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
bool
choice
prompt "Kernel compression mode"
default KERNEL_GZIP
- depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_XZ || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
help
The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable.
Several compression algorithms are available, which differ
@@ -181,6 +184,21 @@ config KERNEL_LZMA
two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33%
smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
+config KERNEL_XZ
+ bool "XZ"
+ depends on HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
+ help
+ XZ uses the LZMA2 algorithm and instruction set specific
+ BCJ filters which can improve compression ratio of executable
+ code. The size of the kernel is about 30% smaller with XZ in
+ comparison to gzip. On architectures for which there is a BCJ
+ filter (i386, x86_64, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC), XZ
+ will create a few percent smaller kernel than plain LZMA.
+
+ The speed is about the same as with LZMA: The decompression
+ speed of XZ is better than that of bzip2 but worse than gzip
+ and LZO. Compression is slow.
+
config KERNEL_LZO
bool "LZO"
depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO