Decompression failure in an inexplicable case

[Albin Tonnerre]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:27 +0100, Michael Cashwell wrote:
>> If I omit CPUFreq support [CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set], or enable both
>> it and its debugging support [CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG=y], the kernel
>> builds and runs seemingly fine.
>>
>> But if I have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ enabled but NOT its debugging support
>> then kernel builds OK (including full mrproper cleanings in between):
>
> I had some issues a few weeks ago with the decompressing:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/73476
>
> That seemed to do with the size of the Image file and randomly removing
> parts of it made it work. Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce it so that
> others can try.

You might want to try using LZO instead of gzip, that one should work correctly.

Cheers,
Albin