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From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:55:37 +0100
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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);

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