mkinitcpio: Add support for the zstd compressor

5 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 3536a48..c7e1ed5 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ optdepends=('xz: Use lzma or xz compression for the initramfs image'
             'bzip2: Use bzip2 compression for the initramfs image'
             'lzop: Use lzo compression for the initramfs image'
             'lz4: Use lz4 compression for the initramfs image'
+            'zstd: Use zstd compression for the initramfs image'
             'mkinitcpio-nfs-utils: Support for root filesystem on NFS')
 backup=(etc/mkinitcpio.conf)
 
diff --git a/lsinitcpio b/lsinitcpio
index bcb4a19..4715783 100755
--- a/lsinitcpio
+++ b/lsinitcpio
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ detect_filetype() {
             echo 'lz4 -l'
             return
             ;;
+        fd2fb528)
+            echo 'zstd'
+            return
+            ;;
     esac
 
     read -rd '' bytes < <(hexdump -n 3 -e '"%c"' "$1")
diff --git a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
index 9c8d000..fe4d077 100644
--- a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
+++ b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
@@ -54,8 +54,10 @@ Variables
 
 	Defines a program to filter the generated image through. As of linux 2.6.38,
 	the kernel understands the compression formats yielded by the *gzip*, *bzip2*,
-	*lz4*, *lzop*, *lzma*, and *xz* compressors. If unspecified, this setting
-	defaults to *gzip* compression. In order to create an uncompressed image, define
+	*lz4*, *lzop*, *lzma*, and *xz* compressors. As of linux 5.9 the kernel also
+	understands the compression formats yielded by the *zstd* compressor.
+	If unspecified, this setting defaults to *gzip* compression.
+	In order to create an uncompressed image, define
 	this variable as *cat*.
 +
 It's not hard to realize that a filter such as a *tac* or *rev* will cause
diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
index ba27433..a9706d0 100755
--- a/mkinitcpio
+++ b/mkinitcpio
@@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ build_image() {
         lz4)
             COMPRESSION_OPTIONS+=('-l')
             ;;
+        zstd)
+            COMPRESSION_OPTIONS+=('-19')
+            ;;
     esac
 
     pushd "$BUILDROOT" >/dev/null
diff --git a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
index b926b90..ba1cce3 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio.conf
+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)
 #COMPRESSION="xz"
 #COMPRESSION="lzop"
 #COMPRESSION="lz4"
+#COMPRESSION="zstd"
 
 # COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
 # Additional options for the compressor