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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:03:34 -0800
From: William Jhun <wjhun@ayrnetworks.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Compressed images?
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:50:43PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> I think I am leaning towards leaving compressed image outside kernel itself.
> 
> I don't see any technical reason why it must be inside kernel.
> 
> Then it must be the code sharing argument.  However, it seem MIPS boards are 
> so much more diversified than x86 machines.  Any sharing, if there are any, is 
> limited.  Also there are other way of sharing code than stacking it into 
> kernle tree, I suppose.
> 
> Another aimless general rant .... :-)
> 
> Jun

But this is a good point. Our own compressed/ build requires building
several elf-header-mangling tools just to get our bootstrap (which we
can't change) to even recognize the finished image.

Though, I'm not sure how much the different decompression (misc.c)
routines vary; could there be some way to do this in a
platform-independent way?

Hmm!
Will