[Skiboot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] config: introduce CONFIG_FSP in Makefiles

[Elizabeth Liner]

Hey Stewart,

I was able to work on the XZ changes and recently got it merged and
reviewed:
	Hostboot p8 review:
https://ralgit01.raleigh.ibm.com/gerrit1/#/c/24609/
	Op-build pull request:
https://github.com/open-power/op-build/pull/520
	Open-power/pnor pull request:
https://github.com/open-power/pnor/pull/48

So now, you should be able to compress and decompress a section without
additional pnor changes with op-build/master-next.  However we currently
are not automatically processing if a section is compressed or not, so if
you need hostboot to decompress the image, I'll have to add in some
additional functionality.  The skiboot image will be processed though.  Let
me know if you have any trouble with the compression/decompression or if
you want to add in another section.

Also, here's the compression command that works with the xz decompressor:
xz --check=crc32 $image

Best,
Elizabeth
--
Elizabeth Liner
Power Firmware Development - Hostboot
IBM Systems & Technology Group - Austin, TX
eliner at us.ibm.com
512-286-6493




From:	Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Elizabeth Liner/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
Cc:	Cédric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com>, skiboot at lists.ozlabs.org
Date:	05/10/2016 08:55 PM
Subject:	Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] config: introduce CONFIG_FSP in Makefiles



Elizabeth Liner <eliner at us.ibm.com> writes:
> I'm hoping to get to the changes some time this month, but I'm not sure
if
> I have the time at this moment.
> However, I can try to make this a priority if you think it would be
useful
> for the skiboot team.

It would be useful - even in just a testing capacity, as I'd like to
start doing test runs with a GCOV enabled skiboot so that we can get
code coverage data out of op-test-framework. However, building with GCOV
bloats the binary size to ~1.5MB - which isn't a problem on an FSP
machine, but is for OpenPOWER where we only have the 1MB partition. But
the xz compression will make this work.

Plus, we're getting close to the 1MB size anyway, and I'd prefer to just
compress it on flash (as this also speeds up boot time) than start
having config options to not build everything into skiboot (as this
enables developers/ODMs to get things horribly wrong).

--
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.


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