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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Simon,

In message <0787afb7-2da1-4eaa-437e-6f7c7582809c at de.pepperl-fuchs.com> you wrote:
> 
> I'd still argue that the standard example in 'multi.its' should have 
> compression = "none" for the ramdisks.

OK, this is your position then.  I can only explain where we are
coming from: in the early days of U-Boot (well, PPCBoot by then)
resources were much tighter than today - look at the examples in the
README: a v2.4.4 Linux kernel image would be around 780 kB
uncompressed or 330 kB compressed.  At this time it was considered a
waste of resources to have the gzip uncompression code in the boot
loader and again duplicated in the Linux kernel - so it was omitted
there and U-Boot would do all uncompression, also of the ramdisks.
I agree this is not standard any more, but it is still a valid use
case, I think.  I know, I'm an old man ;-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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