On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 04:09:32PM +0800, 张忠山 wrote: > > Why don't you uncompress to a regular file (i.e. /tmp/foo) rather than > > to the device file? > > > My fireware will be a huge file: about 12M bytes. I don't known How much > a regular file's size.
barebox will handle these file sizes just fine given that your malloc area size is configured big enough. The only thing that could happen is that the performance of the memory allocator will decrease with that many allocations. You can work around this by increasing CHUNK_SIZE in fs/ramfs.c. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
