[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 2/3] fit: Support compression for non-kernel components (e.g. FDT)

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Jul 30 01:24:31 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 07:37:55PM -0700, Julius Werner wrote:

> This patch adds support for compressing non-kernel image nodes in a FIT
> image (kernel nodes could already be compressed previously). This can
> reduce the size of FIT images and therefore improve boot times
> (especially when an image bundles many different kernel FDTs). The
> images will automatically be decompressed on load.
> 
> This patch does not support extracting compatible strings from
> compressed FDTs, so it's not very helpful in conjunction with
> CONFIG_FIT_BEST_MATCH yet, but it can already be used in environments
> that select the configuration to load explicitly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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