On 10:12 Thu 19 Jul , Sascha Hauer wrote: > The following series allows to create a self extracting barebox image. > This is done by linking barebox twice, once for the actual binary, but > without lowlevel initstuff and once for the lowlevel init stuff, the > decompressor and the compressed image. > > Using lzo compression the pcm038 image shrinks from 252k to 155k. The > series has been tested on the pcm038 second stage, first stage NAND and > first stage NOR and also on an i.MX53 LOCO board (also in thumb2 mode) > > Using compressed images currently adds to the boot time, at least on > my slower arm9 systems. Using the MMU during decompression would help, > but this currently isn't implemented. > > I think the preparation patches should be ready for merging. The last > patch in this series adding compression support I am not that confident > with. Currently I am not very happy with the Makefile changes which > somehow look like bypassing the kbuild mechanism and handcrufting > something that looks like kbuild. If someone has ideas how to improve > this, let me know. Nevertheless I would be happy about Tested-by > (and does-not-work-for) tags. > > Sascha > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Sascha Hauer (9): > lzo: Allow for static inlining > ARM lds: remove unused got > ARM: remove board linker script option > ARM: remove exception vectors from boards > ARM startup: calculate offset instead of runtime address > ARM ep93xx: Get rid of special handling in linker file > ARM boards: Use _text rather than TEXT_BASE > ARM: Separate assembler functions into their own section > Add compressed image support can you push it on a git? Best Regards, J. _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
