Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Tom Rini wrote:

>
>It's possible they can share, but the bootloaders (PPC & MIPS) need a
>slight change to the zlib.c code to to allow using zero as a real
>address to store the uncompressed data.  So we'd want to guard the
>changes with __BOOTER__ or so, and then cp the file or do
>#define __BOOTER__
>#include "zlib.c"
>
>And do -I$(TOPDIR)/lib, or something along those lines.
>

I agree, but I think it would be better to do this one step at a time. 
 Let's get the things in the kernel working first to get rid of the 
namespace crash, then get the bootloaders to share the code.  I can't 
test out a lot of the code, so I can't really do the bootloader changes, 
and the bootloader changes are completely independent, anyway, once zlib 
is moved.

-Corey