[Etherboot-developers] Itanium progress...
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From: <ebi...@ln...> - 2002-12-05 12:09:53
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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 |