[Etherboot-developers] Itanium progress...

[<ebi...@ln...>]

I am busily cleaning up my code, and getting the last couple of things
working.

I finally have the nrv2b decompresser ported.  It is not a terribly
good match for the Itanium, weighing in at 720 bytes.... But that is
still small enough to be quite useful.  I now have a working Itanium
image that is just 32912 bytes....  Uncompressed the same etherboot weighs
in at: 69024 bytes. 

My gut impression is that I am seeing code doubling or tripling it's
size compared to the size it would be on x86, too bad a general
compressor can't shrink the code down tighter...  The Hammer port will
be so much nicer in this regard...

Anyway after a little more cleanup I should be about ready to merge
the Itanium port back into the main tree.

Are there any important things 5.1.4 that need to happen before I start
merging this code?  

I hate to do it now, when 5.1.x is just really starting to stabalize
but better now than later...

Eric