From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:03:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B56E7.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.86.231]:14477 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:03:10 +0000 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAKL33A0003787; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:03:03 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id hAKL2v4F003780; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:02:57 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:02:57 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Dan Malek Cc: Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Compressed kernels Message-ID: <20031120210257.GA758@linux-mips.org> References: <3FBCDBF7.7000307@embeddededge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FBCDBF7.7000307@embeddededge.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3650 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:21:27AM -0500, Dan Malek wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:21:27 -0500 > From: Dan Malek > To: Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com > CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org > Subject: Re: Compressed kernels > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Colin.Helliwell@Zarlink.Com wrote: > > >I'm running a 2.4.21 kernel tree, and would like to have kernel > >compression. I wondered if this has gone back into the latest versions yet? > > If you apply the 'zImage' patch from Pete's ftp directory (look in past > e-mails for this discussion) you will see what I have done for a few of > the boards I'm using. It's quite trivial to add new boards to get > this feature. I'm still working on the method of attaching the > compressed initrd to the same image, which I find quite useful for > embedded applications. Compressed kernels seem to be fairly high on everybody's list. Due to size limits of some boatloaders and flash memory being always too small and too expensive I guess there would also be some interest in bzip2 support. Ralf