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From: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Michael Olbrich <mol@pengutronix.de>, distrokit@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [DistroKit] [PATCH] v8a: barebox: compress with XZ
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:21:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240318142138.232v4snmxtctjtz4@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <632f4139-1c83-4073-b43f-159dc3b7739b@pengutronix.de>

On 24-03-18, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> On 18.03.24 15:10, Marco Felsch wrote:
> > On 24-03-18, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >> This saves us 124K, which we dearly need, because otherwise barebox
> >> would overlap the environment partition. The environment partition
> >> is reserved in the genimage config, but it's used due to the description
> >> in the barebox device tree. We may want to change both, but for now, buy
> >> us some time by switching from LZO to XZ.
> > 
> > Why not making use of ZSTD instead?
> 
> There's no ZSTD option for barebox proper compression.
> I had evaluated it a while ago, but found the ZSTD decompressor
> to be too big to make it worthwhile. See
> https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/20220713100922.1880282-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de/

Ah okay, thanks for the link.

Regards,
  Marco

> 
> Cheers,
> Ahmad
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> >   Marco
> > 
> >> Reported-by: Michael Olbrich <mol@pengutronix.de>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> >> ---
> >>  configs/platform-v8a/barebox.config | 13 ++++++++++---
> >>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/configs/platform-v8a/barebox.config b/configs/platform-v8a/barebox.config
> >> index 26be35533173..699b4f324afa 100644
> >> --- a/configs/platform-v8a/barebox.config
> >> +++ b/configs/platform-v8a/barebox.config
> >> @@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ CONFIG_USE_COMPRESSED_DTB=y
> >>  CONFIG_PBL_RELOCATABLE=y
> >>  CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION=y
> >>  # CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_LZ4 is not set
> >> -CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_LZO=y
> >> +# CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_LZO is not set
> >>  # CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_GZIP is not set
> >> -# CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_XZKERN is not set
> >> +CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_XZKERN=y
> >>  # CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_NONE is not set
> >>  CONFIG_MMU=y
> >>  CONFIG_BAREBOX_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE=0xffffffff
> >> @@ -1063,7 +1063,14 @@ CONFIG_ZLIB=y
> >>  # CONFIG_BZLIB is not set
> >>  # CONFIG_LZ4_DECOMPRESS is not set
> >>  # CONFIG_ZSTD_DECOMPRESS is not set
> >> -# CONFIG_XZ_DECOMPRESS is not set
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DECOMPRESS=y
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DEC_X86=y
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DEC_POWERPC=y
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DEC_IA64=y
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DEC_ARM=y
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DEC_ARMTHUMB=y
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DEC_SPARC=y
> >> +CONFIG_XZ_DEC_ARM64=y
> >>  # CONFIG_BASE64 is not set
> >>  CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT=y
> >>  CONFIG_PROCESS_ESCAPE_SEQUENCE=y
> >> -- 
> >> 2.39.2
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-18 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-18 14:06 Ahmad Fatoum
2024-03-18 14:10 ` Marco Felsch
2024-03-18 14:17   ` Ahmad Fatoum
2024-03-18 14:21     ` Marco Felsch [this message]
2024-03-18 14:18 ` Robert Schwebel

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