Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933739AbXIUWyM (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:54:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764654AbXIUWia (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:38:30 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:30023 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932136AbXIUWi1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:38:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=RjkYiMbC6BJSpqbM23hNzkkJ3tV9xl66pX0OHmZnooHqYkenLXDly7Hy9Hln9pg6Bw7gkr0F/DRjoHkbGYf2bxxJmjupc+ORShHaNceRcyTpLX5bPMFhIa/UE/ar2T+uYBUf2WFARYLbOvCzjlebZzBtH29eeAS1r+n5FCv7xW4= From: Denys Vlasenko To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:37:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <200709211201.24475.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709211905.23946.vda.linux@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709212337.53043.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 22 On Friday 21 September 2007 21:13, Andi Kleen wrote: > Denys Vlasenko writes: > > > > I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware, > > if patches will be accepted: > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 17653 109968 240 127861 1f375 drivers/net/acenic.o > > 6628 120448 4 127080 1f068 drivers/net/dgrs.o > > ^^^^^^ > > Just change the makefiles to always install gzip'ed modules > modutils knows how to unzip them on the fly. But I compile net/* into bzImage. I like netbooting :) -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/