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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Compressed barebox image support
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:08:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120719150832.GG22657@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342685582-13244-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-19  8:12 Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:12 ` [PATCH 1/9] lzo: Allow for static inlining Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:12 ` [PATCH 2/9] ARM lds: remove unused got Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:12 ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: remove board linker script option Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:12 ` [PATCH 4/9] ARM: remove exception vectors from boards Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:12 ` [PATCH 5/9] ARM startup: calculate offset instead of runtime address Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:12 ` [PATCH 6/9] ARM ep93xx: Get rid of special handling in linker file Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:13 ` [PATCH 7/9] ARM boards: Use _text rather than TEXT_BASE Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:13 ` [PATCH 8/9] ARM: Separate assembler functions into their own section Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19 10:38   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2012-07-19 14:04     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-07-19 14:08     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19 20:45       ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-20 16:20         ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-07-23 20:00           ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-23 19:59   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19  8:13 ` [PATCH 9/9] Add compressed image support Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19 14:10   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-07-19 17:08   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-07-19 17:41     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19 18:32       ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-07-19 20:42         ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-20 15:01           ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-07-20 15:24   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-07-19 15:08 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-07-19 16:05   ` Compressed barebox " Sascha Hauer
2012-07-19 20:11 ` Robert Jarzmik
2012-07-20  7:59   ` Sascha Hauer

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