From: Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Compressed Kernels
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:24:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424C2450.4030406@embeddedalley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050331084207.GA8346@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:35:26AM +0100, JP Foster wrote:
>
>>I've noticed that mips doesn't have a compressed kernel option,
>>so I had added support (ripped shamelessly from arch/i386) for it
>>to save space on our flash chips.
>>
>>It works fine for my db1550 and also our product boards.
>>The patch is pretty messy but if there was interest in it I could clean
>>it up. Is there any historical reason for it not being included?
>
> Pete Popov was already working some zImage code.
>
> His link for it:
> ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/ppopov/2.6/zImage_2_6_10.patch
>
> It worked for me in January on an XXS1500 device, but I haven't tried it
> on any newer kernel since then.
>
> I don't know the current status of it, or if it is going to go into the
> main codebase at all.
Should be easy to update if if doesn't apply cleanly anymore. I think the
complaint about that patch is that it duplicates some code from other
architectures and a more common solution is needed. Since I don't have time to
work on something more common, the patch remains stand alone.
Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-31 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-31 8:35 Compressed Kernels JP Foster
2005-03-31 8:42 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-03-31 16:24 ` Pete Popov [this message]
2005-04-01 9:05 ` JP
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-20 9:10 Compressed kernels Colin.Helliwell
2003-11-20 15:21 ` Dan Malek
2003-11-20 21:02 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-11-20 21:42 ` Dan Malek
2003-11-20 22:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-11-20 22:50 ` Dan Malek
2003-11-25 23:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-11-22 2:41 ` Ralf Baechle
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