[OLPC-devel] Not so good news (Was: good news)

[Jordan Crouse]

> I noticed that switching to nrv2b compression alone will save >20 kb. And nrv2b is already supported by LinuxBIOS.
> 
> If you apply the attached patch and change line 7 in work/linuxbios/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/olpc/rev_a/Config.1M.lb to
> 
> option CONFIG_COMPRESSED_ROM_STREAM=1
> 
> you _should_ get a working ROM.

Sorry - didn't work.  I'm probably going to check in the infrastructure,
because its a good start, but for now we're stuck with the old ROM.

I did verify, however, that you were exactly right - the nrv2b does save
us an additional 20k or so.

Jordan