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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:20:47 -0600
From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
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To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it
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Tom Rini wrote:

>
>It's possible they can share, but the bootloaders (PPC & MIPS) need a
>slight change to the zlib.c code to to allow using zero as a real
>address to store the uncompressed data.  So we'd want to guard the
>changes with __BOOTER__ or so, and then cp the file or do
>#define __BOOTER__
>#include "zlib.c"
>
>And do -I$(TOPDIR)/lib, or something along those lines.
>

I agree, but I think it would be better to do this one step at a time. 
 Let's get the things in the kernel working first to get rid of the 
namespace crash, then get the bootloaders to share the code.  I can't 
test out a lot of the code, so I can't really do the bootloader changes, 
and the bootloader changes are completely independent, anyway, once zlib 
is moved.

-Corey


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