Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 02/08/06 14:43 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
Carl-Daniel U. Hailfinger wrote:
I just want to NOT put a lot of time into this if we are going to then
jump to lzma. I don't want to thrash around a lot on this. I also want
to make sure that at every point, buildrom is usable by everyone -- no
surprises for users. That's why I wanted to hold off on the commits --
one thing at a time.
I agree - if we're going to lzma, no need for the intermediate step.
Also, when I did measure it, I found that
the size of (bzImage + gzip'ed initrd) was smaller than (nrv2b
compressed mkelfimage output with vmlinux and initrd). Maybe something
changed, but I would like to see the numbers one more time on final
output. So do a buildrom pass and let me know what you're seeing on olpc
.elf file vs. what you are doing. Final numbers of the payload, I mean.
nrv2b(vmlinux + initrd.uncompressed):
Payload 808426 (76310 bytes free in ROM)
bzImage + initrd.gz:
825175 bytes (59561 bytes free in ROM)
Thats a delta of 16k.35 Kbytes.
Jordan
Although it looks like nrv2b will win :-)
good news, 16k is always welcome.
ron
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