Re: Status of bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for ARM?

Michael Opdenacker
2009-06-29T16:40:18Z

On 06/29/2009 02:21 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Alain Knaff wrote:
>
>> Alain Knaff wrote:
>>
>>> Attached is a version of the ARM patch for 2.6.30
>>>
>>> There seems to be some issues with the include files (which did not pose
>>> any problems in 2.6.28...), but hopefully somebody more experienced with
>>> the ARM architecture (and with its recent development) than I can help
>>> out there.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Alain
>>>
>> Actually, the needed changes turned out to be easier than I initially
>> feared. Attached a version that compiles all right.
>>
>
> I gave it a quick test and it hangs before "Decompressing kernel" is output.
> I hope I'll have time this week to debug what's wrong there.
>
Same here. I compiled 3 kernels with each option with no problem, but
none goes beyond the "Uncompressing Linux.." message. I am using a CALAO
USB-A9263 board with the AT91SAM9263 chip.

This means that even zlib compression is broken with this patch.

I hope I can work on this too.

Thanks anyway!

Cheers,

Michael.

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