From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2TRv-0001WQ-Km for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:11 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2TRs-0001Us-MM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42517 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2TRs-0001Ua-ER for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:08 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:50203) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2TRs-0004Oa-ML for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:29:08 -0500 Received: from d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (d01relay07.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.147]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mAIGVeL6018458 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:31:40 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id mAIGScVq1810476 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:28:39 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id mAIGRARj002077 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:28:26 -0700 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (slate.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id mAIGKVk7007980 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:20:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support From: Hollis Blanchard In-Reply-To: <20081117223929.GB20874@game.jcrosoft.org> References: <09739678475eecbf3d9de512bf1dd13d07bd6642.1226955410.git.hollisb@us.ibm.com> <9d5d305c23980946944437d1116f3f83430b40e2.1226955410.git.hollisb@us.ibm.com> <20081117220709.GA20874@game.jcrosoft.org> <1226961319.3702.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081117223929.GB20874@game.jcrosoft.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:20:22 -0600 Message-Id: <1227025222.32660.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 23:39 +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > It looks like Linux does not yet use this format, neither for > > PowerPC (my personal interest) nor ARM. > > No the PowerPC has switch to it > And some ARM board will do as AT91 AFAICS the new format is only used with mkimage -f, correct? Since the -f switch is *not* used in the Linux makefiles (neither PowerPC nor ARM, in Linus's tree right now), I really don't understand what you mean. > > > Secondly we aslo support now LZMA compression > > > > That's good to know, but PowerPC Linux has traditionally and > continues > > to use gzip uImages, so that's what this patch implements. > > Some boards as qemu_mips and some other ARM board start to use it Again, that's good to know, but let's not confuse the issue. Qemu today doesn't support gzipped uImages, Linux uses gzipped uImages, and my patch adds support for that. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center