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From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: add support for uncompressed uImage kernel
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:51:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101109145131.GY16938@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101109140455.GA6680@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:04:55PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Is it really faster to copy an uncompressed image than it is to
> decompress using LZMA with caches on?
> 
> Remember that in terms of fast boot, uboot sucks - it's way over the
> top of what you need.  Eg, it always copies the image to RAM before
> executing it.  That gives two problems:
Last time I checked (which is a few years ago) U-Boot was well able to
start a ZBOOT_ROM image.  I'd be surprised if U-Boot lost that ability.

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-K?nig            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-09 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 13:50 [PATCH] ARM: add support for uncompressed uImage kernel Alexander Stein
2010-11-09 14:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-11-09 14:51   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2010-11-09 22:38   ` Sascha Hauer
2010-11-13 10:47   ` Albin Tonnerre
2010-11-18  7:38     ` Alexander Stein
2010-11-18  8:15       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-11-18  9:10       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-11-18 10:18         ` Alexander Stein
2010-11-09 14:57 ` Uwe Kleine-König

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