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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jul 30 12:44:42 UTC 2018


Dear Simon,

In message <642b8dae-f941-5255-42c7-3761e12d04cb at de.pepperl-fuchs.com> you wrote:
> 
> As I'm not that long with U-Boot, can you point me to a rough date of a 
> release that I could check to see if it worked at that time?

I can only speculate...  The first bigger rework of the cose appears
to be this patch series:

30864 859e92b775   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Move timestamp #ifdefs to header file
30863 61a439a873   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Export fit_check_ramdisk()
30862 53fbb7e885   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Split FIT code into new image-fit.c
30861 604f23dde0   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Move HOSTCC image code to tools/
30860 94e5fa46a0   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Split hash node processing into its own function
30859 b7260910dc   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Convert fit_image_hash_set_value() to static, and rename
30858 b8da836650   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Rename fit_image_check_hashes() to fit_image_verify()
30857 ab9efc665a   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Move hash checking into its own function
30856 e754da2aee   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Move error! string to common place
30855 003efd7da4   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Export fit_conf_get_prop_node()
30854 bbb467dc3c   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Rename fit_add_hashes() to fit_add_verification_data()
30853 d8b75360ee   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Rename hash printing to fit_image_print_verification_dat      a()
30852 35e7b0f179   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   sandbox: image: Add support for booting images in sandbox
30851 aa6d6db4d4   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   mkimage: Put FIT loading in function and tidy error handling
30850 1fe7d93891   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Remove remaining #ifdefs in image-fit.c
30849 87ebee39e9   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Add CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT to control FIT image printing i      n SPL
30848 44d3a3066b   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Split libfdt code into image-fdt.c
30847 13d06981a9   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   image: Add device tree setup to image library
30846 c19d13b030   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   arm: Refactor bootm to reduce #ifdefs
30845 6caa195614   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   arm: Use image_setup_linux() instead of local code
30844 3e51266a4e   2013-05-14 15:37:25 -0400   powerpc: Use image_setup_linux() instead of local code
30843 24507cf50a   2013-05-14 15:37:26 -0400   m68k: Use image_setup_linux() instead of local code
30842 2a08b740e3   2013-05-14 15:37:26 -0400   sparc: Use image_setup_linux() instead of local code

But there have been earlier changes, and many later (heavy) reworks,
too.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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