From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Opdenacker Subject: Re: Status of bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for ARM? Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:39:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4A48EE5D.10600@free-electrons.com> References: <4A428AFF.20307@free-electrons.com> <4A433BCD.2030506@compulab.co.il> <200906251104.02830.florian@openwrt.org> <4A4396CB.9000703@free-electrons.com> <4A4776DD.50105@knaff.lu> <4A478286.8020908@knaff.lu> <4A48B1D9.90306@compulab.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A48B1D9.90306@compulab.co.il> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mike Rapoport Cc: Alain Knaff , Florian Fainelli , Thomas Petazzoni , Russell King - ARM Linux , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-embedded mailing list On 06/29/2009 02:21 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote: > Alain Knaff wrote: > >> Alain Knaff wrote: >> >>> Attached is a version of the ARM patch for 2.6.30 >>> >>> There seems to be some issues with the include files (which did not pose >>> any problems in 2.6.28...), but hopefully somebody more experienced with >>> the ARM architecture (and with its recent development) than I can help >>> out there. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Alain >>> >> Actually, the needed changes turned out to be easier than I initially >> feared. Attached a version that compiles all right. >> > > I gave it a quick test and it hangs before "Decompressing kernel" is output. > I hope I'll have time this week to debug what's wrong there. > Same here. I compiled 3 kernels with each option with no problem, but none goes beyond the "Uncompressing Linux.." message. I am using a CALAO USB-A9263 board with the AT91SAM9263 chip. This means that even zlib compression is broken with this patch. I hope I can work on this too. Thanks anyway! Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com