From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g24MvC101476 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:57:12 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g24Mv9V01472; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:57:09 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:57:09 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: William Jhun Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Compressed images? Message-ID: <20020304145709.A1332@oss.sgi.com> References: <20020304120803.A1247@ayrnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020304120803.A1247@ayrnetworks.com>; from wjhun@ayrnetworks.com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:03PM -0800 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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