Open Firmware use on OLPC.

Fri Oct 13 17:40:47 EDT 2006

Peter Lorenzen wrote:
>>> why not just LZMA the whole image?
> 
> ofw is like a "tar" of mostly gzipped files
> 
> ofw as distributed here  -> 338 kB
> that image throught lzma -> 300 kB
> compress idividual files -> 225 kB
> 
> It could make sense to include VSA and .. in this kind of
> tar like a minifilesystem to avoid duplication of code.

OK, so the easy fix is to remove compression from the individual
files and instead use lzma on the uncompressed image. LinuxBIOS
will decompress the whole image into memory anyway, so I can't
see any disadvantage of this method.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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