On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 05:24:59PM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > On 06/25/2009 11:04 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Le Thursday 25 June 2009 10:56:45 Mike Rapoport, vous avez ?crit : > >> 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. > It's possible to use this generically now, yes. Anything building uImages today can basically wire it up in a similar fashion to how blackfin has and support it out of the box. -- 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
