[U-Boot-Users] help - u-boot header & compression

[Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini <luigi.mantellini@idf-hit.com>]

Hi Avinash,

You should check the nand_spl and openand_ipl directories to see
examples how to start u-boot from a not bootable memory (like nand).

Best regards,

luigi


On mer, 2008-04-02 at 14:26 -0700, Avinash Vijayvergia wrote:
> Hi Luig
> 
> Thank you for your mail. I actually have two questions:
>      1. What is the format of u-boot header? Can you refer me to some
>         documentation?
>      2. I want to compress u-boot. I have picked up nrv2b.c from
>         Koders.com which is in use by many people :). I couldn't
>         understand how it does encoding and decoding. I wanted to use
>         this algo and do compression and decompression of my binaries.
>         You can search google for nrv2b.c and you will get it from
>         Koder.com.
> Thanks for your help
> Avinash
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini <luigi.mantellini@idf-hit.com>
> To: Avinash Vijayvergia <avinashs36@yahoo.com>
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:19:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] help - u-boot header & compression
> 
> Hi Avinash,
> 
> I'm not undestanding if you want compress the U-Boot code or if you
> want compress the uImage image.
> Anyway, I don't know the nrv2b algorithm, can you give me any links?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> luigi
> 
> Il giorno mer, 02/04/2008 alle 13.54 -0700, Avinash Vijayvergia ha
> scritto: 
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I am working on AT91SAM9260 ARM9 core. I have very small flash
> > memory and hence need to compress the u-boot. I have picked nrv2b
> > algo for that. Can someone suggest me how to put the compression
> > info in the u-boot header. I want to know the details of u-boot
> > header too.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Avinash
> > 
> > 
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