[LinuxBIOS] selection of compression algorithm

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue May 23 18:11:45 CEST 2006


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> 
>>Copy_and_run is used by CAR and included in cache_as_ram_auto.c and
>>compiled with gcc. That should be changed to use lzma easily.
>>
>>CONFIG_COMPRESSED_ROM_STREAM is used for pay load. --- stream_init will
>>do the uncompressed. ( stream_init is in ram)
>>
>>CONFIG_COMPRESS is for linuxbios_ram.rom --- copy_and_run will do the
>>uncompress. ( copy_and_run is ROM, and used ram as stack and local
>>variable)
> 
> 
> Patch attached to clear up the naming confusion. Applies on top of my
> older patch.
> Please apply.

this has passed the abuild regression test and works on at least one 
platform, right?

ron




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