From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:55:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709181855.37598.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190141114.9540.216.camel@dell>
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);
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200709181823.26429.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2007-09-18 18:45 ` bnx2 dirver's firmware images Michael Chan
2007-09-18 17:55 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2007-09-18 19:09 ` Michael Chan
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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