Any way to do time keeping during kernel uncompression[ARM architecture]

[sandeep kumar]

Hi Dave.
Ok
Can you tell me which thing runs faster ?
1)Copy *zImage(compressed kernel)* from flash to Ram, jump to start,
Relocate compress kernel, uncompress it...
2)Copy* Image(uncompressed one) *from flash to RAM and run it right away...

My gut feeling says second one is better, thats what i m trying to prove
here... :)

Thanks
Sandeep.



On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey sandeep,
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:30 PM, sandeep kumar <coolsandyforyou at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> > On ARM, Just for learning i am working on booting with uncompressed
> kernel.
> >
> > I am meddling with arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S, and understand the
> relocation/decompression stuff through putting some logs.
> >
> > I want to check how much time it takes for kernel to relocate itself and
> how much time it takes to decompress etc.,
> >
> > Is there any possibility of seeing the current time stamp here, like a
> register which keeps on counting immediately after boot..
>
> You're essentially running at the bootloader level here. You haven't
> started the kernel so the only timers that you have are whatever your
> bootloader has setup, or whatever you want to setup yourself (bare-metal
> programming here).
>
> --
> Dave Hylands
> Shuswap, BC, Canada
> http://www.davehylands.com
>



-- 
With regards,
Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli,
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