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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support
From: |
Hollis Blanchard |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:20:22 -0600 |
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 23:39 +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
wrote:
> > It looks like Linux does not yet use this format, neither for
> > PowerPC (my personal interest) nor ARM.
>
> No the PowerPC has switch to it
> And some ARM board will do as AT91
AFAICS the new format is only used with mkimage -f, correct? Since the
-f switch is *not* used in the Linux makefiles (neither PowerPC nor ARM,
in Linus's tree right now), I really don't understand what you mean.
> > > Secondly we aslo support now LZMA compression
> >
> > That's good to know, but PowerPC Linux has traditionally and
> continues
> > to use gzip uImages, so that's what this patch implements.
>
> Some boards as qemu_mips and some other ARM board start to use it
Again, that's good to know, but let's not confuse the issue. Qemu today
doesn't support gzipped uImages, Linux uses gzipped uImages, and my
patch adds support for that.
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] uImage: return base load address, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, François Revol, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Hollis Blanchard, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, François Revol, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, François Revol, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Hollis Blanchard, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, 2008/11/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support,
Hollis Blanchard <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Hollis Blanchard, 2008/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] uImage: implement gzip support, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/18
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] uImage: free file data after copying into guest memory, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/18