[OE-core] [warrior][PATCH] kernel-uboot: compress arm64 kernels

Bedel, Alban alban.bedel at aerq.com
Tue Sep 3 09:41:32 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 13:53 +0000, Bedel, Alban wrote:
> AArch64 images are not self-decompressing, thus usually much larger.
> Boot times can be reduced by compressing them in FIT and uImages.
> 
> This commit is a backport of commit a725d188b5 (kernel-uboot:
> compress
> arm64 kernels) and commit 60bc7e180e (kernel-uboot: remove useless
> special casing of arm64 Image) from master. Both commit were melted
> into one to avoid some useless churn.

Was this patch overlooked, or is there a reason it is not considered in
the next round of update for warrior? Without this patch kernel images
are too large to fit in the flash of the system I'm using. Furthermore
it is not trivial to fix this in my own layer.

Alban



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