[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/2] fit: Support compression for non-kernel components (e.g. FDT)

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 13 23:34:55 UTC 2019


Hi Julius,

> 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>
> ---
>  common/image-fit.c        | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  test/py/tests/test_fit.py | 29 +++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Is there a change log for this patch?I think we discussed having a test.

Regards,
Simon


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