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<title>linux.git/arch/mips/Makefile, branch v2.6.35</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Loongson 2F: Enable fixups of the latest binutils</title>
<updated>2010-04-30T19:52:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Zhangjin</name>
<email>wuzhangjin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-10T12:05:01+00:00</published>
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With the  "Fixups of Loongson2F" patch [1] having been applied to binutils
for binutils 2.20.1 we now can use it's time to enable the options provided
by the patch to compile the kernel.

Without these fixups, the system may hang if the erratum is triggered.

For more information on these fixups please refer to the following
references.

[1] "Fixups of Loongson2F" patch for binutils(actually for gas)
    http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-11/msg00387.html
[2] Chapter 15 of "Loongson2F User Manual"(Chinese Version)
    http://www.loongson.cn/uploadfile/file/200808211
[3] Chapter 15 of the English version Loongson 2F User Manual
    http://groups.google.com.hk/group/loongson-dev/msg/e0d2e220958f10a6?dmode=source

Signed-off-by: Zhang Le &lt;r0bertz@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Le &lt;r0bertz@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1106/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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With the  "Fixups of Loongson2F" patch [1] having been applied to binutils
for binutils 2.20.1 we now can use it's time to enable the options provided
by the patch to compile the kernel.

Without these fixups, the system may hang if the erratum is triggered.

For more information on these fixups please refer to the following
references.

[1] "Fixups of Loongson2F" patch for binutils(actually for gas)
    http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-11/msg00387.html
[2] Chapter 15 of "Loongson2F User Manual"(Chinese Version)
    http://www.loongson.cn/uploadfile/file/200808211
[3] Chapter 15 of the English version Loongson 2F User Manual
    http://groups.google.com.hk/group/loongson-dev/msg/e0d2e220958f10a6?dmode=source

Signed-off-by: Zhang Le &lt;r0bertz@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Le &lt;r0bertz@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1106/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Loongson: arch/mips/Makefile: Add missing whitespace</title>
<updated>2010-02-27T11:53:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Zhangjin</name>
<email>wuzhangjin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-04T09:16:49+00:00</published>
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This patch add missing whitespace after every "+=" in the loongson
related part of arch/mips/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: yanh@lemote.com
Cc: huhb@lemote.com
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/827/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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This patch add missing whitespace after every "+=" in the loongson
related part of arch/mips/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: yanh@lemote.com
Cc: huhb@lemote.com
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/827/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix build error for uncompressed non-plain vmlinux kernels</title>
<updated>2010-02-27T11:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T12:57:12+00:00</published>
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Seen on rm200_defconfig for example:

  CC      arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.o
/home/ralf/src/linux/upstream-linus/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c: In function ‘decompress_kernel’:
/home/ralf/src/linux/upstream-linus/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c:116: error: implicit declaration of function ‘decompress’
make[3]: *** [arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [vmlinuz.ecoff] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Seen on rm200_defconfig for example:

  CC      arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.o
/home/ralf/src/linux/upstream-linus/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c: In function ‘decompress_kernel’:
/home/ralf/src/linux/upstream-linus/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c:116: error: implicit declaration of function ‘decompress’
make[3]: *** [arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [vmlinuz.ecoff] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: eXcite: Remove platform.</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T01:57:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-17T01:57:35+00:00</published>
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The platform has never been fully merged 

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Koeller &lt;thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
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The platform has never been fully merged 

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Koeller &lt;thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck &lt;wim@iguana.be&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Tracing: Make function graph tracer work with -mmcount-ra-address</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T01:57:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Zhangjin</name>
<email>wuzhangjin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-20T12:34:38+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
That thread "MIPS: Add option to pass return address location to
_mcount" from "David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;" have added a new
option -mmcount-ra-address to gcc(4.5) for MIPS to transfer the location
of the return address to _mcount.

Benefit from this new feature, function graph tracer on MIPS will be
easier and safer to hijack the return address of the kernel function,
which will save some overhead and make the whole thing more reliable.

In this patch, at first, try to enable the option -mmcount-ra-address in
arch/mips/Makefile with cc-option, if gcc support it, it will be
enabled, otherwise, no side effect.

and then, we need to support this new option of gcc 4.5 and also support
the old gcc versions.

with _mcount in the old gcc versions, it's not easy to get the location
of return address(tracing: add function graph tracer support for MIPS),
   so, we do it in a C function: ftrace_get_parent_addr(ftrace.c), but
   with -mmcount-ra-address, only several instructions need to get what
   we want, so, I put into asm(mcount.S). and also, as the $12(t0) is
   used by -mmcount-ra-address for transferring the localtion of return
   address to _mcount, we need to save it into the stack and restore it
   when enabled dynamic function tracer, 'Cause we have called
   "ftrace_call" before "ftrace_graph_caller", which may destroy
   $12(t0).

(Thanks to David for providing that -mcount-ra-address and giving the
 idea of KBUILD_MCOUNT_RA_ADDRESS, both of them have made the whole
 thing more beautiful!)

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;der.herr@hofr.at&gt;
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/681/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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That thread "MIPS: Add option to pass return address location to
_mcount" from "David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;" have added a new
option -mmcount-ra-address to gcc(4.5) for MIPS to transfer the location
of the return address to _mcount.

Benefit from this new feature, function graph tracer on MIPS will be
easier and safer to hijack the return address of the kernel function,
which will save some overhead and make the whole thing more reliable.

In this patch, at first, try to enable the option -mmcount-ra-address in
arch/mips/Makefile with cc-option, if gcc support it, it will be
enabled, otherwise, no side effect.

and then, we need to support this new option of gcc 4.5 and also support
the old gcc versions.

with _mcount in the old gcc versions, it's not easy to get the location
of return address(tracing: add function graph tracer support for MIPS),
   so, we do it in a C function: ftrace_get_parent_addr(ftrace.c), but
   with -mmcount-ra-address, only several instructions need to get what
   we want, so, I put into asm(mcount.S). and also, as the $12(t0) is
   used by -mmcount-ra-address for transferring the localtion of return
   address to _mcount, we need to save it into the stack and restore it
   when enabled dynamic function tracer, 'Cause we have called
   "ftrace_call" before "ftrace_graph_caller", which may destroy
   $12(t0).

(Thanks to David for providing that -mcount-ra-address and giving the
 idea of KBUILD_MCOUNT_RA_ADDRESS, both of them have made the whole
 thing more beautiful!)

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;der.herr@hofr.at&gt;
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/681/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Tracing: Add static function tracer support for MIPS</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T01:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Zhangjin</name>
<email>wuzhangjin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-20T12:34:29+00:00</published>
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If -pg of gcc is enabled with CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y. a calling to
_mcount will be inserted into each kernel function. so, there is a
possibility to trace the kernel functions in _mcount.

This patch add the MIPS specific _mcount support for static function
tracing. by default, ftrace_trace_function is initialized as
ftrace_stub(an empty function), so, the default _mcount will introduce
very little overhead. after enabling ftrace in user-space, it will jump
to a real tracing function and do static function tracing for us.

and -ffunction-sections is incompatible with -pg, so, disable it when
ftracer is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;der.herr@hofr.at&gt;
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/672/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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If -pg of gcc is enabled with CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y. a calling to
_mcount will be inserted into each kernel function. so, there is a
possibility to trace the kernel functions in _mcount.

This patch add the MIPS specific _mcount support for static function
tracing. by default, ftrace_trace_function is initialized as
ftrace_stub(an empty function), so, the default _mcount will introduce
very little overhead. after enabling ftrace in user-space, it will jump
to a real tracing function and do static function tracing for us.

and -ffunction-sections is incompatible with -pg, so, disable it when
ftracer is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;der.herr@hofr.at&gt;
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/672/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: PowerTV: Base files for Cisco PowerTV platform</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T01:57:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David VomLehn</name>
<email>dvomlehn@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-31T00:15:11+00:00</published>
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Add the Cisco Powertv cable settop box to the MIPS tree. This platform is
based on a MIPS 24Kc processor with various devices integrated on the same
ASIC. There are multiple models of this box, with differing configuration
but the same kernel runs across the product line.

Signed-off-by: David VomLehn &lt;dvomlehn@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/132/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Add the Cisco Powertv cable settop box to the MIPS tree. This platform is
based on a MIPS 24Kc processor with various devices integrated on the same
ASIC. There are multiple models of this box, with differing configuration
but the same kernel runs across the product line.

Signed-off-by: David VomLehn &lt;dvomlehn@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/132/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Lemote 2F: Add a LEMOTE_MACH2F kernel option</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T01:57:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Zhangjin</name>
<email>wuzhangjin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-09T16:06:10+00:00</published>
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Add a new kernel option for Lemote Loongson 2F family machines.

Lemote loongson2f family machines utilize the 2f revision of loongson
processor and the AMD CS5536 south bridge.

Family members include Fuloong 2F mini PC, Yeeloong 2F notebook, LingLoong
all-in-one PC and others.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: yanh@lemote.com
Cc: huhb@lemote.com
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;hofrat@hofr.at&gt;
Cc: Arnaud Patard &lt;apatard@mandriva.com&gt;
Cc: loongson-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Add a new kernel option for Lemote Loongson 2F family machines.

Lemote loongson2f family machines utilize the 2f revision of loongson
processor and the AMD CS5536 south bridge.

Family members include Fuloong 2F mini PC, Yeeloong 2F notebook, LingLoong
all-in-one PC and others.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: yanh@lemote.com
Cc: huhb@lemote.com
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;hofrat@hofr.at&gt;
Cc: Arnaud Patard &lt;apatard@mandriva.com&gt;
Cc: loongson-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Loongson: Add basic Loongson 2F support</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T01:57:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Zhangjin</name>
<email>wuzhangjin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-06T10:45:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Loongson 2F has built-in DDR2 and PCI-X controller. The PCI-X controller
has a programming interface similiar to the the FPGA northbridge used on
Loongson 2E.

The main differences between Loongson 2E and Loongson 2F include:

1. Loongson 2F has an extra address window configuration module, which
   is used to map CPU address space to DDR or PCI address space, or map
   the PCI-DMA address space to DDR or LIO address space.

2. Loongson 2F supports 8 levels of software configurable CPu frequency
   which can be configured in the LOONGSON_CHIPCFG0 register.  The coming
   cpufreq and standby support are based on this feature.

Loongson.h abstracts the modules and corresponding methods are abstracted.

Add other Loongson-2F-specific source code including gcc 4.4 support, PCI
memory space, PCI IO space, DMA address.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</content>
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Loongson 2F has built-in DDR2 and PCI-X controller. The PCI-X controller
has a programming interface similiar to the the FPGA northbridge used on
Loongson 2E.

The main differences between Loongson 2E and Loongson 2F include:

1. Loongson 2F has an extra address window configuration module, which
   is used to map CPU address space to DDR or PCI address space, or map
   the PCI-DMA address space to DDR or LIO address space.

2. Loongson 2F supports 8 levels of software configurable CPu frequency
   which can be configured in the LOONGSON_CHIPCFG0 register.  The coming
   cpufreq and standby support are based on this feature.

Loongson.h abstracts the modules and corresponding methods are abstracted.

Add other Loongson-2F-specific source code including gcc 4.4 support, PCI
memory space, PCI IO space, DMA address.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<title>MIPS: Add support for GZIP / BZIP2 / LZMA compressed kernel images</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T01:56:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Zhangjin</name>
<email>wuzhangjin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-14T10:12:16+00:00</published>
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This patch helps to generate smaller kernel images for linux-MIPS,

Here is the effect when using lzma:

$ ls -sh vmlinux
7.1M vmlinux
$ ls -sh vmlinuz
1.5M vmlinuz

Have tested the 32bit kernel on Qemu/Malta and 64bit kernel on FuLoong
Mini PC. both of them work well. and also, tested by Alexander Clouter
on an AR7 based Linksys WAG54Gv2, and by Manuel Lauss on an Alchemy
board.

This -v2 version incorporate the feedback from Ralf, and add the
following changes:

1. add .ecoff, .bin, .erec format support
2. only enable it and the debug source code for the machines we tested
3. a dozen of fixups and cleanups

and if you want to enable it for your board, please try to select
SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT for it, and if the board have an 16550 compatible
uart, you can select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 directly. and then
sending the relative patches to Ralf.

Tested-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@googlemail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexander Clouter &lt;alex@digriz.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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This patch helps to generate smaller kernel images for linux-MIPS,

Here is the effect when using lzma:

$ ls -sh vmlinux
7.1M vmlinux
$ ls -sh vmlinuz
1.5M vmlinuz

Have tested the 32bit kernel on Qemu/Malta and 64bit kernel on FuLoong
Mini PC. both of them work well. and also, tested by Alexander Clouter
on an AR7 based Linksys WAG54Gv2, and by Manuel Lauss on an Alchemy
board.

This -v2 version incorporate the feedback from Ralf, and add the
following changes:

1. add .ecoff, .bin, .erec format support
2. only enable it and the debug source code for the machines we tested
3. a dozen of fixups and cleanups

and if you want to enable it for your board, please try to select
SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT for it, and if the board have an 16550 compatible
uart, you can select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 directly. and then
sending the relative patches to Ralf.

Tested-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@googlemail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexander Clouter &lt;alex@digriz.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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