[PATCH 1/6] imx8mp_evk: enable booting Image.gz and avoid extra memcpy

Peng Fan (OSS) peng.fan at oss.nxp.com
Fri Jun 19 18:06:03 CEST 2026


From: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>

Add support for booting compressed kernel Image.gz by defining
kernel_comp_addr_r and kernel_comp_size in the default environment.

Set kernel_comp_addr_r to a high memory region (0x80000000) to provide
a dedicated decompression buffer, avoiding overlap between compressed
input and decompressed output.

Also adjust CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR from 0x40480000 to 0x40600000.

With TEXT_OFFSET=0, the kernel is relocated directly to loadaddr, so
separating decompression and execution regions is required to guarantee
safe decompression without additional copying.

Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
---
 board/nxp/imx8mp_evk/imx8mp_evk.env | 2 ++
 configs/imx8mp_evk_defconfig        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/board/nxp/imx8mp_evk/imx8mp_evk.env b/board/nxp/imx8mp_evk/imx8mp_evk.env
index e994b93b168..dfc922e6215 100644
--- a/board/nxp/imx8mp_evk/imx8mp_evk.env
+++ b/board/nxp/imx8mp_evk/imx8mp_evk.env
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ fdt_addr=0x43000000
 fdtfile=DEFAULT_FDT_FILE
 image=Image
 ip_dyn=yes
+kernel_comp_addr_r=0x80000000
+kernel_comp_size=0x2000000
 mmcdev=CONFIG_ENV_MMC_DEVICE_INDEX
 mmcpart=1
 mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rootwait rw
diff --git a/configs/imx8mp_evk_defconfig b/configs/imx8mp_evk_defconfig
index 7af538ee367..a74ce5a60d3 100644
--- a/configs/imx8mp_evk_defconfig
+++ b/configs/imx8mp_evk_defconfig
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ CONFIG_SPL_HAS_BSS_LINKER_SECTION=y
 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR=0x98fc00
 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE=0x400
 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN=0x2000000
-CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR=0x40480000
+CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR=0x40600000
 CONFIG_SPL=y
 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND=0x20400
 CONFIG_SPL_IMX_ROMAPI_LOADADDR=0x48000000

-- 
2.51.0



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