On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:12:17AM +1300, Andre Renaud wrote:

On 01/03/12 08:59, Stephen Warren wrote:

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Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote at Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:44 PM:
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If you want to give incentive for U-Boot to improve, drop the target
today. And note that at least people caring about boot time must not use
the kernel's uImage target anyhow.

If you enable the new config option in this patch, then the performance
issue is solved; U-Boot doesn't copy the kernel image any more, and the
kernel decompressor can write directly to the appropriate location without
moving the image first (assuming your board boot script loads the uImage
to a non-conflicting address).

I may have missed part of this, but isn't one of the points regarding
this that the zImage decompressor always runs with data cache disabled,

Most certainly not.  We've had the data cache enabled for years and
years.  And I mean 10+ years.  We may have been lacking support on
some CPUs, but that was because of lack of contributions.

resulting in a slow decompress, where as if the U-Boot decompressor is
used (ie, gzipping the Image, and telling U-Boot to decompress), then it
can run with caches enabled, improving boot speed?

That's pure FUD.