Re: [PATCH 0/7] inflate pt1: refactor boot-time inflate code

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:56:26PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:12:15PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > This is a refactored version of the lib/inflate.c:
> > 
> > - clean up some really ugly code
> > - clean up atrocities like '#include "../../../lib/inflate.c"'
> > - drop a ton of cut and paste code from the kernel boot
> > - move towards making the boot decompressor pluggable
> > - move towards unifying the multiple inflate implementations
> > - save space
> > 
> > I'm sending this out in three batches. This first batch is core
> > clean-ups without arch-specific changes.
> > 
> > (This work was sponsored in part by the CE Linux Forum.)
> 
> ISTR something like this was posted months back, but I don't remember
> what the status of it was.  Hence, I might be repeating myself in this
> reply, but I feel it's better to mention this than not to.
> 
> There's a comment at the top of arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c which
> describes the use of the inflate code on ARM - for the kernel it's a
> special case where the decompressor is run from ROM.
> 
> There's also another twist to it though - our relocatable zImage
> requires us to build all files in the executable part of zImage
> without _any_ static variables.  If there's one or more static
> variables, this feature breaks horribly (and silently in the non-
> relocated cases.)

I think I addressed all those issues last time around, and none of
them should be present in this batch anyway. But it's possible I've
missed something. If you'd like, I can send the whole set to you for
testing.

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