On 06/25/2009 11:04 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Le Thursday 25 June 2009 10:56:45 Mike Rapoport, vous avez écrit : >> I'm not sure what exactly do you mean by "test bzip2 and lzma compression >> on ARM", but if you refer to internal initramfs compression, I can tell >> that I've used lzma compression on PXA270 and it works fine. >> > > I think Michael refers to the lzma decompressor which allows you to use a > lzma-compressed kernel as a (b)zImage with its architecture specific > decompressor piggy-backed in the (b)zImage. > > Such thing would also be very useful on MIPS and PowerPC as well. > Yes, that's what I meant: using a bzip2 or lzma compressed kernel. I would like to know the boot time impact on an ARM board. If I don't get any answer from Alain in the next days, I will propose a patch update for ARM. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
