[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] FIT image: use compression = "none" for ramdisks

[Simon Goldschmidt]

On 30.07.2018 14:36, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Simon,
> 
> In message <6bce9049-a812-d8e4-cd2a-4b86dccae67e at de.pepperl-fuchs.com> you wrote:
>>
>> However, uncompression currently is only implemented for kernels, not
>> for other sub-images. This patch aims at updating the docs and the
>> current .its examples to what they do now.
> 
> Yes, but the current state should IMO not been taken as reference.
> I don't have time ATM to achtually check with older versions, but
> I'm pretty sure that that was handled correctly in the original FIT
> implementation, and the examples made sense at the time they were
> being written.  I suspect that later changes broke the code, so only
> the code needs to be fixed.
> 
> In general for the image handling there should be no distinction at
> all whether this is a kernel or ramdisk or FPGA or whatever image -
> compression is a feature independent of the image type, and that's
> how the code should handle it.

OK, so at least we all seem to have a common sense of how it should be :-)

I'd still argue that the standard example in 'multi.its' should have 
compression = "none" for the ramdisks.

Best regards,
Simon