On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:50:43PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote: > > I think I am leaning towards leaving compressed image outside kernel itself. > > I don't see any technical reason why it must be inside kernel. > > Then it must be the code sharing argument. However, it seem MIPS boards are > so much more diversified than x86 machines. Any sharing, if there are any, is > limited. Also there are other way of sharing code than stacking it into > kernle tree, I suppose. > > Another aimless general rant .... :-) > > Jun But this is a good point. Our own compressed/ build requires building several elf-header-mangling tools just to get our bootstrap (which we can't change) to even recognize the finished image. Though, I'm not sure how much the different decompression (misc.c) routines vary; could there be some way to do this in a platform-independent way? Hmm! Will
