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[Photon/P1] WiFi firmware blob compression #1421

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Problem

We are running out of space in system-part1 on Photon and P1, where ~200K of flash space is being occupied by WiFi chip firmware.

Solution

  1. Compress WiFi firmware using DEFLATE: 215172 -> 149324 (30% space savings!)
  2. Decompress it in runtime: 405ms -> 485ms loading time

Resulting system-part1 size:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 209012	    156	    288	 209456	  33230	../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m/system-part1.elf

develop system-part1 size:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 261604	    156	    276	 262036	  3ff94	../../../build/target/system-part1/platform-6-m/system-part1.elf

51K freed in system-part1.

NOTE: An intermediate release will be required to enable OTA/Ymodem upgrades to system-part1 with comperssion. Support implemented in #1420

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Example App

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Completeness

  • User is totes amazing for contributing!
  • Contributor has signed CLA (Info here)
  • Problem and Solution clearly stated
  • Run unit/integration/application tests on device
  • Added documentation
  • Added to CHANGELOG.md after merging (add links to docs and issues)

@m-mcgowan m-mcgowan added this to the 0.8.0 milestone Oct 31, 2017
@m-mcgowan m-mcgowan merged commit b56767a into develop Nov 6, 2017
@mrlambchop mrlambchop deleted the feature/wifi-firmware-compression branch October 26, 2023 23:58
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