Re: Compressed images?

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:

> 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 :-)
> 


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