Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:09:52 -0700

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:55 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 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);
> 
Good point.  We can do that.  Looking at the file, there are other non-
zero data that can be compressed to save some more room.