XZ-compressed data, typically using the LZMA2 algorithm.
| 0x00000000 | FD377A585A00 | ·7zXZ· | XZ magic |
XZ wraps LZMA2 in a container with integrity checks, giving high compression ratios for software distribution and kernel images. The six-byte magic is FD 37 7A 58 5A 00.
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