ipq40xx: use zImage for GL.iNet GL-B1300, GL-S1300 to shrink below 4096k
authorSzabolcs Hubai <szab.hu@gmail.com>
Sat, 9 Oct 2021 23:32:30 +0000 (01:32 +0200)
committerChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:47:41 +0000 (16:47 +0200)
commit81d694e30b4926fea057bd3e46d996a8f098b95a
treef079a3a0345ce0d779bac9a892cc0db73bfd5da6
parentfe9e5fbd7527ad4ff4f5b955823216038a80557d
ipq40xx: use zImage for GL.iNet GL-B1300, GL-S1300 to shrink below 4096k

In the "ipq40xx: switch to Kernel 5.10" discussion at GitHub,
Adrian noted [0] that these GL.iNet Conexa series devices,
GL-B1300 and GL-S1300 failed their image generation [1] as their gzipped
uImage kernel went above 4096k.

While notifying the vendor about this problem [2], I tested all U-Boot
releases from GL.iNet:
- they really fail to boot kernel above 4096k
- they don't support lzma: "Unimplemented compression type 3"
- but they boot zImage

Using zImage (xz compression) the kernel is 2909k which is
more than a megabyte away from the KERNEL_SIZE := 4096k limit.

The gzip compressed version would be 4116k.

[0]: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4620#issuecomment-932765776
[1]: commit 7b1fa276f5a2 ("ipq40xx: add testing support for kernel 5.10")
[2]: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/ipq40xx-kernel-size-and-u-boot-v5-10-is-too-big-for-4-mb/17619

Signed-off-by: Szabolcs Hubai <szab.hu@gmail.com>
target/linux/ipq40xx/image/generic.mk