On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:12:15PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> This is a refactored version of the lib/inflate.c:
>
> - clean up some really ugly code
> - clean up atrocities like '#include "../../../lib/inflate.c"'
> - drop a ton of cut and paste code from the kernel boot
> - move towards making the boot decompressor pluggable
> - move towards unifying the multiple inflate implementations
> - save space
>
> I'm sending this out in three batches. This first batch is core
> clean-ups without arch-specific changes.
>
> (This work was sponsored in part by the CE Linux Forum.)
ISTR something like this was posted months back, but I don't remember
what the status of it was. Hence, I might be repeating myself in this
reply, but I feel it's better to mention this than not to.
There's a comment at the top of arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c which
describes the use of the inflate code on ARM - for the kernel it's a
special case where the decompressor is run from ROM.
There's also another twist to it though - our relocatable zImage
requires us to build all files in the executable part of zImage
without _any_ static variables. If there's one or more static
variables, this feature breaks horribly (and silently in the non-
relocated cases.)
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
