Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it
Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:35:33 -0700
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:20:47AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
>
> >
> >It's possible they can share, but the bootloaders (PPC & MIPS) need a
> >slight change to the zlib.c code to to allow using zero as a real
> >address to store the uncompressed data. So we'd want to guard the
> >changes with __BOOTER__ or so, and then cp the file or do
> >#define __BOOTER__
> >#include "zlib.c"
> >
> >And do -I$(TOPDIR)/lib, or something along those lines.
>
> I agree, but I think it would be better to do this one step at a time.
So do I. So it can work, but lets get this in and I'll make the PPC
stuff use it (since I've got lots of other updates for it I'm getting
ready to push out).
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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