Re: [RESEND PATCH] mips: ralink: allow zboot

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Thu Mar 21 2019 - 18:02:04 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:03:34AM -0600, George Hilliard wrote:
> Architecturally, there's nothing preventing compressed images from
> working. Bootloaders built with support for the various compression
> methods can decompress and run the kernel. In practice, many
> bootloaders do not support compressed images, but kernels for those
> boards should just not be compressed.

With zboot the decompressor is included in the image so no bootloader
support is needed.

A.