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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This is a wrapper for xz to compress the kernel image using appropriate
+# compression options depending on the architecture.
+#
+# Author: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
+#
+# This file has been put into the public domain.
+# You can do whatever you want with this file.
+#
+
+BCJ=
+LZMA2OPTS=
+
+case $ARCH in
+	x86|x86_64)     BCJ=--x86 ;;
+	powerpc)        BCJ=--powerpc ;;
+	ia64)           BCJ=--ia64; LZMA2OPTS=pb=4 ;;
+	arm)            BCJ=--arm ;;
+	sparc)          BCJ=--sparc ;;
+esac
+
+exec xz --check=crc32 $BCJ --lzma2=$LZMA2OPTS,dict=32MiB