[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] doc: FIT image: clarify usage of "compression" property

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jul 30 12:32:03 UTC 2018


Dear Simon,

In message <a218ccb8-a461-b119-f2d7-d1cb7c88b8c6 at de.pepperl-fuchs.com> you wrote:
>
> > These may be different examples, documenting different use cases
> > which do exactly what they say?
>
> That might well be, but given that compression in FIT images only works 
> for kernel sub-images up to now, I strongly doubt that.

This might actually be a regression the image handling rework that
went unnoticed for a long time.  I'm pretty sure that the original
implementation of FIT images handled this correctly.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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