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 g250Zl604988 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:35:47 -0800 Received: from idiom.com (espin@idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g250Zh904982; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:35:44 -0800 Received: (from espin@localhost) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA40038; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:35:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:35:42 -0800 From: Geoffrey Espin To: William Jhun Cc: Jun Sun , Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Compressed images? Message-ID: <20020304153542.B31050@idiom.com> References: <20020304120803.A1247@ayrnetworks.com> <20020304145709.A1332@oss.sgi.com> <3C83FA43.4090407@mvista.com> <20020304150334.D1247@ayrnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <20020304150334.D1247@ayrnetworks.com>; from William Jhun on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:34PM -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > 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? Pete Popov's mips/zboot is probably the most generic for MIPS, though, it only was done for Alchemy's. See: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linux-mips/linux/arch/mips/zboot/ [I re-ported it to Korva and reduced much of the extraneous fluff (both extra misc- source files and unneeded utils/), but its never been checked into CVS.] Geoff -- Geoffrey Espin espin@idiom.com --