From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:57:45 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] How to make uImage compressed In-Reply-To: <25B7AA6B-19A4-441C-9EDD-063D26310BD9@gmx.net> References: <25B7AA6B-19A4-441C-9EDD-063D26310BD9@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20101123225745.10be8084@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:55:41 +0100 Stefan Pachner wrote: > I am new to buildroot. I am happy to be able to generate a booting > uImage for my board and wonder how to generate a compressed one. u- > boot is claming that my uImage is uncompressed. On ARM, the internal kernel compression is used, and not the compression offered by mkimage/uImage. So even if mkimage claims your image is not compressed, it in fact is. Unless you're not talking about ARM, of course. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com