[PATCH 01/10] Makefile: Add support to generate GZIP compressed raw u-boot binary

[Simon Glass]

Hi Manoj,

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 01:13, Manoj Sai
<abbaraju.manojsai at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> Can you please suggest or briefly explain to me the steps to be
> followed to generate the compressed u-boot-nodtb.bin.gz and
> u-boot-nodtb.bin.lzma file  with the help of binman  ,
> when compression support is enabled . Can you provide me with any
> reference patch to get it done?

Yes, please see here:

https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/develop/package/binman.html#compression

Regards,
Simon


>
> Thanks and regards,
> Manoj sai
> Amarula Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 9:04 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Manoj,
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 13:12, Manoj Sai
> > <abbaraju.manojsai at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Add support for generating a GZIP-compressed raw U-boot binary.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Manoj Sai <abbaraju.manojsai at amarulasolutions.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh <sunil at amarulasolutions.com>
> > > ---
> > >  Makefile | 3 +++
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > Please can you use binman to do that?
> >
> > We are trying to remove the extra build rules in the Makefile.
> >
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > index 444baaefd0..6e15ebd116 100644
> > > --- a/Makefile
> > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > @@ -1312,6 +1312,9 @@ endif
> > >  u-boot-nodtb.bin: u-boot FORCE
> > >         $(call if_changed,objcopy_uboot)
> > >         $(BOARD_SIZE_CHECK)
> > > +ifeq ($(CONFIG_SPL_GZIP),y)
> > > +       @gzip -k u-boot-nodtb.bin
> > > +endif
> > >
> > >  u-boot.ldr:    u-boot
> > >                 $(CREATE_LDR_ENV)
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon