[PATCH] ARM: add support for uncompressed uImage kernel

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:38:26AM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> Soory for late answer,
> 
> On Saturday 13 November 2010, 11:47:41 Albin Tonnerre wrote:
> > <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Is it really faster to copy an uncompressed image than it is to
> > > decompress using LZMA with caches on?
> > 
> > In my experience, using LZMA is painfully slow on older ARM CPUs.
> > 
> > If you really need to boot quickly you might want to try LZO, which
> > should give you results close to the uncompressed performance. It
> > might still be slower though, especially if you're able to load your
> > kernel image to memory fairly quickly
> 
> We only have experience with GZIP. Our compressed kernel is ~1,8MB and 
> uncompressed ~4MB.
> On an AT91 ARM9 SoC the decompression takes about 1-2s of time. Caches should 
> be disabled, as far as I could see in decompression code.
Caches are enabled in line 248 of
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S;h=6825c34646d4e02f24b0eefe7ab4e012bca05208;hb=HEAD

Best regards
Uwe

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