Re: [PATCH,resend] sparc64: build compressed image (zImage) by default

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 06:16, Sam Ravnborg<sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmmm..
> This path does the following:
> 1) zImage becomes default for sparc and sparc64
> 2) fixes zImage on sparc64 (it dod not work before)
> 3) On sparc zImage is a stripped version of vmlinux, on sparc64 it is a gzipped not-stripped
>   version of vmlinux - so it introduces a significantly different zImage.
>
> Could we agree on the _same_ format for zImage on sparc and sparc64 and then apply that patch?
>
> I know Julian is working on unifying piggyback_{32,64}.c so maybe that is
> covered by his work?

I have been fiddling with that, but time is been at a premium at the moment.

I don't believe that changes to the zImage / vmlinux targets will
affect this as the tftpboot code uses the uncompressed (I believe)
"Image" target.

Thanks,

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