Re: TS 7200 kernel image size

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

On 3/05/2009, at 9:32 AM, Martin Fouts wrote:

> For the TS7200 it's the gziped image that goes into the fis reserved  
> region.
> I haven't tried with current, but 4.0 fit nicely when we were  
> working with
> it.

It goes into the free region, not the reserved one. RedBoot won't let  
you put anything into the reserved region.

> The gzimage file contains a small executable that unzips the kernel  
> into
> ram, followed by the gzipped kernel.

And it's really slow. Comparing the speed of the default Linux image  
shipped with TS7200 with the NetBSD gsimg is painful.

Cheers,
Lloyd