linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

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Message-ID: <adar6kryd4l.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:31:06 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	mchan@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

 > Just change the makefiles to always install gzip'ed modules
 > modutils knows how to unzip them on the fly.

But that leaves the uncompressed firmware blobs in .data that ends up
in unswappable kernel memory.

 - R.
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