On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:55 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:45, Michael Chan wrote:
> > We can compress all the different sections of the firmware. Currently,
> > we only compress the biggest chunks and the rest are uncompressed.
>
> > These zeros should compress to almost nothing. But I agree that the
> > firmware is still big.
>
> You don't need to store and fetch zeros at all. You *know* that
> they are zeros, right? So do this:
>
> - REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, fw->bss[j]);
> + REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, 0);
>
Good point. We can do that. Looking at the file, there are other non-
zero data that can be compressed to save some more room.
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