From: "Li Yang" <LeoLi@freescale.com>
To: "Matthew McClintock" <msm@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New target 'cuImage' - compatibility uImage
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 00:17:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0bc9bf80608030917y7fde2b75n6719dc675cad8cfe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154620934.5094.12.camel@localhost>
On 8/4/06, Matthew McClintock <msm@freescale.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:56 +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> >
> > If U-boot supports uncompressed kernel image in uImage, I think it
> > will be better to use this scheme:
> >
> > u-boot header + wrapper + FDT + compressed kernel image
> >
> > As kernel image will be uncompressed to its loading address directly.
> > While in your proposal, it needs to be moved one more time.
> >
>
> This is an option. But, I do not see a reason why you would not still
> opt to compress everything. Especially since it is already working.
> Comments anyone?
Though it will need more space, the increase won't be too much as
wrapper and FDT should be very small. The benefit is that kernel can
be extract directly to it's destination(address 0), rather than
extract to another place and then move it there. A classical
time/space tradeoff.
>
> -Matthew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-03 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-02 20:59 [RFC] New target 'cuImage' - compatibility uImage Matthew McClintock
2006-08-02 22:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-03 11:38 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-08-03 15:29 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 15:56 ` Li Yang
2006-08-03 16:02 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 16:17 ` Li Yang [this message]
2006-08-03 16:24 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 16:47 ` Li Yang
2006-08-03 20:14 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-03 20:20 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 20:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-03 20:40 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 20:07 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-03 19:37 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-08-03 20:02 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-03 20:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-03 20:12 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 20:23 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-03 20:31 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 0:30 ` Tom Rini
2006-08-03 15:24 ` Matthew McClintock
2006-08-03 11:47 ` Li Yang-r58472
2006-08-03 15:30 ` Matthew McClintock
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-03 9:29 Milton Miller
2006-08-03 18:17 Milton Miller
2006-08-03 18:53 ` Matthew McClintock
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