Re: [LinuxBIOS] [FEATURE] payload compression

[yhlu]

sounds good.
you need to notice one thing...
check if it could cross the [0xa0000, 0xd0000)...

To make it easier, You may just set CONFIG_TOP_MEM_K to 4096, and
_RAM_START to 1M...

YH

On 4/29/06, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while I've been working on FILO and OpenBIOS lately I really wished
> that they could be used as nrv2b compressed payload, like its possible
> with etherboot.
>
> Since etherboot is probably not going to be developed beyond v5.5 and
> because the zelf support in etherboot is really ugly, I thought of an
> alternative to support compressed payloads easily.
>
> So I wrote a new stream which can be enabled by using
> CONFIG_COMPRESSED_ROM_STREAM instead of CONFIG_ROM_STREAM.
>
> When you enable CONFIG_COMPRESSED_ROM_STREAM, the payload you specify
> will completely automatically be compressed during the build stage, so
> you don't have to do anything except safe space with a few small
> changes.
>
> Stefan