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From: joshc@codeaurora.org (Josh Cartwright)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: AArch64 kernel image decompression
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:04:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140110170436.GS8153@joshc.qualcomm.com> (raw)

Hey Will-

Scanning the Documentation/arm64/booting.txt document, I came across
this, listing an optional step a bootloader might take:

"The AArch64 kernel does not currently provide a decompressor and
therefore requires decompression (gzip, etc.) to be performed by the
boot loader if a compressed Image target (e.g. Image.gz) is used."

Do you envision that, if a decompressor is desired, it will always be
the responsibility of a bootloader to implement it?

In other words, would you accept patches adding support for building
zImages (and others) for AArch64?

Thanks,
   Josh

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-01-10 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-10 17:04 Josh Cartwright [this message]
2014-01-13 11:17 ` AArch64 kernel image decompression Will Deacon
2014-01-13 11:29   ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-01-13 11:42     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-01-14  3:52       ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-01-14  5:19         ` Olof Johansson
2014-01-14  6:14           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-01-14 10:59             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-01-14 16:48             ` Stephen Warren
2014-01-14 12:51       ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-14 13:38         ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-01-14 13:47           ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-14 17:19             ` Olof Johansson
2014-01-14 18:53               ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-15  4:37                 ` Olof Johansson
2014-01-13 22:10   ` Josh Cartwright

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