From: Hans Kristian Rosbach <hk@isphuset.no>
To: Axel Kittenberger <axel.kittenberger@univie.ac.at>
Cc: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible Bootloader Optimization in inflate (get rid of unnecessary 32k Window)
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:53:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135328036.23862.86.camel@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386.81.217.14.229.1135278280.squirrel@webmail.univie.ac.at>
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 20:04 +0100, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> > Right. And the time to perform that one copy is exactly...?
> >
> > I doubt that it is a significant percentage of the whole operation.
>
> Well Yes I agree, I guess also it isn't. Its roughly the time you need to
> copy 1 MB memory around. I just noticed that it is in fact after all still
> unneccary and that in fact could be optimized away. As some
> window-management could can be optimized away.
>
> I would volunteer to take the time to code it, but only if i have a good
> feeling that it would be accepted... if not, well than okay for me also, i
> will do other things :o)
I would think this would be a welcome optimization for embedded
platforms even if not included in mainline. Embedded platforms
often dont have very fast memory, but nevertheless are
required to boot ASAP.
-HK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-23 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 12:52 Possible Bootloader Optimization in inflate (get rid of unnecessary 32k Window) Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-22 17:37 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-22 18:12 ` Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-22 18:30 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-22 19:04 ` Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-23 8:53 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach [this message]
2005-12-24 21:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-25 21:01 ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-12-25 21:10 ` Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-25 21:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-26 2:15 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-26 16:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
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