From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Behme Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:20:40 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Starting compressed win CE kernel In-Reply-To: <20090904121700.66126832E8DE@gemini.denx.de> References: <000e01ca2d48$728b0890$57a119b0$@de> <20090904110959.7FA5D832E8DE@gemini.denx.de> <001701ca2d55$f30b6200$d9222600$@de> <20090904121700.66126832E8DE@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4AA12238.6020908@googlemail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear "A. Geisreiter", > > In message <001701ca2d55$f30b6200$d9222600$@de> you wrote: >>> What makes you think that the uncompression code used by bootm would >>> be any faster than the one used by unzip? It ain't faster, as it is >>> the very same code actually. >> If bootm use the same code like the unzip command, then it couldn't be >> faster. > > Indeed. > >> But I have compressed a nk.bin Windows Image file with GZIP. Then I >> uncompressed the 10MB File with U-Boot. It takes roughly 1 minute. And this >> is to much I think. What could I do to reduce the uncompression time? My >> hardware works with an PXA270 CPU. > > You probably want to enable caches on your system, to get faster > performance. Jean-Christophe (on Cc:) claimed several times before > that he was working on such patches. Maybe you ask him when he will > post this stuff. Unfortunately, there was no answer to http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-August/058700.html Dirk