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

[akuster808]

On 9/24/19 12:23 AM, Bedel, Alban wrote:
> 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.

This appears to be a performance enhancement which does not fall into
the criteria for back porting to a stable branch.

- armin
>
> Alban
>


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