Re: [Etherboot-developers] lzhuf compression program hangs

[Markus G. <ma...@gu...>]

> lzhuf hangs when attempting compression of a file 131072 in size, but works
> on a file 114688 in size;  also, the make of lzhuf fails if either -DENCODE
> or -DDECODE compilation flags is missing (ie.  its currently only possible
> to create lzhuf with both decode and encode elements);  does anybody know of
> any other lz compression programs out there with available source?

The compression program that comes with Etherboot is really only
intended for ROM images. The decompressor will fail if the image
grows too big. The compressor should do somewhat better, but it has
never been tested with large images. There is a good chance that
the "reconst()" function has bugs, because it is never used for
the size of images that come with etherboot. All of these bugs should
be relatively easy to fix, but I cannot really see why you'd even
encounter them; "etherboot" cannot deal with uncompressed images
that large anyway.


Markus

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