[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] Blackfin: easylogo: add lzma logos

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 04 February 2012 14:38:15 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 February 2012 09:56:33 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > The bf527-ezkit boards are getting too big to fit into their reserved
> > > > flash space, so we need to use a lzma compressed logo.
> > > > 
> > > > Since the video driver code is very similar, add lzma compressed
> > > > support to all of the Blackfin video drivers.
> > > 
> > > So what exactly do you plan to do when the u-boot won't fit into the
> > > reserved flash space next time ?
> > 
> > i'll worry about that when it comes
> 
> maybe you can introduce decompressor into u-boot like linux has it and
> compress the rest of uboot with lzma/xz ? :)

i've thought of doing that in the past.  for some people, size matters a _lot_ 
more than speed.  although i looked at implementing it with the Blackfin 
bootrom callback mechanism rather than in u-boot directly.  i guess the SPL 
code could do the same thing "easily".
-mike
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