[PATCH 1/3] ARM: zImage: no need to get the decompressed size from the filesystem
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Thu Apr 21 08:47:38 EDT 2011
* Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> [110420 07:12]:
> In commit d239b1dc093d the hardcoded 4x estimate for the decompressed
> kernel size was replaced by the exact Image file size and passed to
> the linker as a symbol value. Turns out that this is unneeded as the
> size is already included at the end of the compressed piggy data.
> For those compressed formats that don't include this data, the build
> system already takes care of appending it using size_append in
> scripts/Makefile.lib. So let's use that instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
Works fine on the boards I'm using:
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
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