[PATCH] Clean up ARM compressed loader

Hector Martin hector at marcansoft.com
Wed Feb 24 19:01:34 EST 2010


Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:09:13PM +0100, Hector Martin wrote:
>> Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> Independant of the outcome of this discussion I suggest reverting the
>>> switch to the new decompressor for .33.  Hectors patch definitely isn't
>>> .33 material and broken or not the old decompressor was more reliable.
>> That's reasonable, as far as .33 goes. Obviously I'm not expecting my
>> patch to make it to this release.
> 
> Could you put together a description for the commit log for this revert
> please?

Something like this?

Revert "arm: add support for LZO-compressed kernels"

This commit switches to a different inflate implementation. This
implementation is subtly broken when used within the current ARM
compressed loader due to some build hacks. Revert the switch until those
hacks can be removed.

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Hector Martin (hector at marcansoft.com)
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