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Re: Flash mapping questions
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- Cc: eCos Patches List <ecos-patches at ecos dot sourceware dot org>,eCos developers <ecos-devel at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:34:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: Flash mapping questions
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <BF1FE1855350A0479097B3A0D2A80EE0F60C1B@hdsmsx402.hd.intel.com> <4971.208.186.29.82.1074115339.squirrel@www.chez-thomas.org> <40298DD6.1050309@eCosCentric.com>
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 19:05, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > [CYGSEM_IO_FLASH_READ_INDIRECT conflicts with CYGBLD_BUILD_REDBOOT_WITH_ZLIB ]
> > Having "zlib" included let's you keep compressed images in FIS. It's
> > also necessary if you want to download compressed images and have
> > RedBoot uncompress them on the fly. It's probably not too hard to get
> > around this problem, I just didn't have the time when I added the
> > "indirect" support.
>
> [Old mail I know, I'm just going through my old stuff a bit]
>
> This particular port aside, not supporting compressed FIS images is fair
> enough, but preventing compressed download should be easy to avoid, as per
> the attached patch. It's so easy I feel I'm missing something? Let me know
> if not and I'll commit :-).
I'm happy with this. Perhaps someday, someone will find the time to
allow compressed images in NAND FLASH as well.
Please commit.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates