[U-Boot] Unable to decompress files greater than 500 MB

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Thu Oct 27 06:16:19 CEST 2016


Hello Zakir Ahmed,

Am 26.10.2016 um 12:22 schrieb Zakir Ahmed:
> Hi,
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> We are using u-boot source code which has the support for most of the
> compressions like bz2, lzma, gz etc.
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> We tried uncompressing bz2, lzma and gz images and most of them either fail
> or data abort or hang indefinitely for large sized uncompressed data > 500
> MB.
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> This is for the arm port.
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> Could you please provide us any pointers for the same?

On which board is this and how much RAM do you have?
How looks your memory map?
In which way does it fail?

I just speculate now ... you may overwrite U-Boot Code /stack
malloc space ?

bye,
Heiko
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