Dear Simon, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > I'd still argue that the standard example in 'multi.its' should have > compression = "none" for the ramdisks.
OK, this is your position then. I can only explain where we are coming from: in the early days of U-Boot (well, PPCBoot by then) resources were much tighter than today - look at the examples in the README: a v2.4.4 Linux kernel image would be around 780 kB uncompressed or 330 kB compressed. At this time it was considered a waste of resources to have the gzip uncompression code in the boot loader and again duplicated in the Linux kernel - so it was omitted there and U-Boot would do all uncompression, also of the ramdisks. I agree this is not standard any more, but it is still a valid use case, I think. I know, I'm an old man ;-) Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. - Ambrose Bierce _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
