Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Fri Sep 21 2007 - 18:54:13 EST


On Friday 21 September 2007 21:13, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
> > if patches will be accepted:
> >
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 17653 109968 240 127861 1f375 drivers/net/acenic.o
> > 6628 120448 4 127080 1f068 drivers/net/dgrs.o
> > ^^^^^^
>
> Just change the makefiles to always install gzip'ed modules
> modutils knows how to unzip them on the fly.

But I compile net/* into bzImage. I like netbooting :)
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