[LinuxBIOS] selection of compression algorithm

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Tue May 23 11:26:32 CEST 2006


I may only want to lzma for payload if we can sqush tiny kernel and
initrd in 1M with LinuxBIOS.

I may need to use nrv2b for linuxbios_ram.rom and
linuxbios_ap_code.rom. These too can share the code in car stage. and
code in cache can not have too much space for lzma properties array.

YH

On 5/22/06, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> * yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com> [060523 07:10]:
> > Good.
> >
> > 1. We may need CONFIG_COMPRESS_TYPE to select nrv2b or lzma..or none
>
> Maybe it could even replace CONFIG_COMPRESS and
> CONFIG_COMPRESS_ROM_STREAM?
>
> > 2. Add one compress type before compressed bin. 00: for none. 0x11:
> > for nrv2b or 0x22:  for lzma.
>
> We could do this all at compile time so we don't need any "runtime
> infrastructure"
>
> Stefan
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