[J-core] Instruction Request: Dedicated CPUID Function

[Rob Landley]

On 10/23/2017 06:11 PM, D. Jeff Dionne wrote:
> My point is there is n bytes of storage practically available on chip
> for that, where 128 <= n <= 2k.  At 2k, it's already 1/4 of a nice,
> practical on chip 1st stage bootloader...

The kernel already knows how to gunzip itself during early boot, can we
teach it to decompress the device tree? If so that gives us 2-4x the
space...

  $ ls -l net/sysctl_net.c
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 landley landley 3042 Jun 11 12:40 net/sysctl_net.c
  $ cat net/sysctl_net.c | gzip -9 | wc -c
  1184

Rob