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

[Bedel, Alban]

On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 09:41 +0000, Bedel, Alban wrote:
> 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.

Please, I really like to get an answer here. I'm fine if there is a
reason why this patch is not considered for warrior, but just getting
ignored is very frustrating.

Alban

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