From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: William Jhun <wjhun@ayrnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Compressed images?
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:57:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020304145709.A1332@oss.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020304120803.A1247@ayrnetworks.com>; from wjhun@ayrnetworks.com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:03PM -0800
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:03PM -0800, William Jhun wrote:
> I've been looking through the recent linux-mips archives and it seems
> there isn't a concensus about where to build compressed ((b)zImage)
> images. We have been placing our code under arch/mips/boot/compressed,
> though it seems that the latest oss tree doesn't have such a directory,
> and the only reference I can find to building a compressed image is in
> galileo-boards/ev64120/compressed/.
>
> Should we be placing our boot image compression stuff in our
> platform-specific directory? Are most MIPS-based Linux platforms not
> using compressed images?
General rant, not directed to you personally. Right now we've got more
than half a dozen variations of code to support compressed images throughout
the kernel. So I'm not going to accept any new patches for compressed
images before this mess has been cleaned. Volunteers :-)
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-04 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-04 20:08 Compressed images? William Jhun
2002-03-04 21:31 ` Karsten Merker
2002-03-04 22:57 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-03-04 22:50 ` Jun Sun
2002-03-04 23:03 ` William Jhun
2002-03-04 23:35 ` Geoffrey Espin
2002-03-04 23:19 ` Geoffrey Espin
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