From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:18:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from x1000-57.tellink.net ([63.161.110.249]:42734 "EHLO tibook.netx4.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:18:07 +0100 Received: from embeddededge.com (IDENT:dan@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tibook.netx4.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gA8FHMt00686; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:17:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3DCBD582.200@embeddededge.com> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 10:17:22 -0500 From: Dan Malek Organization: Embedded Edge, LLC. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Burgess CC: Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: EV64120 anybody? References: <80256C6B.0051C5D4.00@notesmta.eur.3com.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 613 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: dan@embeddededge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Jon Burgess wrote: > I think this is the only example of support for a compressed > kernel image in the linux-mips.org code. There was the start of > some more generic support in the SF tree but I haven't > looked at it recently. I've been doing lots of compressed kernel/initrd work recently in the Alchemy Au1xxx kernels. It's part of the SF stuff I'd like to get into Ralf's tree one of these days so we stop having different source pools. IMHO, the MIPS initrd stuff is quite broken, works only in a few very specific cases. I have a more generic version in the SF tree that would be nice to move forward someday as well. Most of this work was taken from the PowerPC and ARM versions of compressing kernels and using initrd, so it looks familiar to others that may venture out of MIPS-land. :-) Thanks. -- Dan