From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] image: android: allow to wrap uImage into the Android boot image
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:05:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190724200550.GH20116@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190603123813.48903-1-roman.stratiienko@globallogic.com>
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 03:38:13PM +0300, roman.stratiienko at globallogic.com wrote:
> From: Roman Stratiienko <roman.stratiienko@globallogic.com>
>
> This allows to use any available compression format with Android boot image
>
> Since not all available compression formats have a magic number we should
> explicitly specify type of compression.
>
> For this purpose using uImage format becomes very useful, as this format is
> well-known by the community and mkimage tool is already available.
>
> Usage example:
> mkimage -A ARM64 -T kernel -C lzma -d Image.lzma out/kernel
>
> At this moment only -C option is handled, but specifying -A and -T options
> are recommended for compatibility reasons in the future.
>
> Kernel that compressed with LZ4 can be already used without wrapping into
> the uImage, but I recommend wrapping it into the uImage in order to avoid
> situations when by some mistake legacy LZ4 is used, that is interpreted as
> raw Image and causes CPU to enter Exception Handler without providing any
> meaningful explanation to the user.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Stratiienko <roman.stratiienko@globallogic.com>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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2019-06-03 12:38 [U-Boot] [PATCH] image: android: allow to wrap uImage into the Android boot image roman.stratiienko at globallogic.com
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