linux-kernel - Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <200709181855.37598.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:55:37 +0100
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:45, Michael Chan wrote:
> We can compress all the different sections of the firmware.  Currently,
> we only compress the biggest chunks and the rest are uncompressed.

> These zeros should compress to almost nothing.  But I agree that the
> firmware is still big.

You don't need to store and fetch zeros at all. You *know* that
they are zeros, right? So do this:

-                         REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, fw->bss[j]);
+                         REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, 0);

--
vda
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/