From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Denys Vlasenko" <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:09:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190142592.9540.218.camel@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709181855.37598.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:55 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:45, Michael Chan wrote:
> > We can compress all the different sections of the firmware. Currently,
> > we only compress the biggest chunks and the rest are uncompressed.
>
> > These zeros should compress to almost nothing. But I agree that the
> > firmware is still big.
>
> You don't need to store and fetch zeros at all. You *know* that
> they are zeros, right? So do this:
>
> - REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, fw->bss[j]);
> + REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, 0);
>
Good point. We can do that. Looking at the file, there are other non-
zero data that can be compressed to save some more room.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 17:23 bnx2 dirver's firmware images Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-18 18:45 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-18 17:55 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-18 19:09 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2007-09-18 18:23 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 18:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-18 19:20 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 19:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-18 20:08 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 20:35 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-18 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-19 17:10 ` maximilian attems
2007-09-19 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-19 17:18 ` maximilian attems
2007-09-19 17:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-18 20:05 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-18 19:21 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 21:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-18 21:31 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 21:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-18 23:14 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-19 13:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-19 16:09 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 8:30 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-19 21:00 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-19 20:29 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-19 21:43 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-20 14:49 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-21 2:12 ` Michael Chan
2007-09-19 16:33 ` maximilian attems
2007-09-19 16:38 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 16:51 ` maximilian attems
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