FIT: support for compressed images breaks existing images

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hello Christian,

On 25.08.23 11:44, Christian Eggers wrote:
> Hi Ahmad,
> 
> On Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 18:32:06 CEST, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>> I need not tell you though that latest is greatest and all that ;)
> 
> after rebasing my internal branch to v2023.8.0, my system doesn't
> boot anymore:
> 
> Booting entry '/dev/nand0.root.ubi.kernel0'
> FIT: Opened FIT image: Barebox fitImage for Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro)/1.0/orbiter
> FIT: matching unit 'conf-imx6ull-arri-orbiter-revB.dtb' found
> FIT: configuration 'conf-imx6ull-arri-orbiter-revB.dtb': 7 Linux kernel, FDT blob, ramdisk
> FIT: image 'kernel-1': 'Linux kernel'
> FIT: /images/kernel-1/hash-1: hash OK
> 
> Loading open firmware Device Tree flattened Binary '/dev/nand0.root.ubi.kernel0'
> FIT: image 'ramdisk-1': 'lios-initramfs-ubifs-orbiter.cpio.lz4'
> FIT: /images/ramdisk-1/hash-1: hash OK
> cannot handle filetype LZ4 compressed
> ERROR: FIT: data couldn't be decompressed
> ERROR: Cannot open ramdisk image in FIT image: Function not implemented
> ERROR: Booting entry '/dev/nand0.root.ubi.kernel0' failed
> 
> 
> Since commit
> 
> 2ab6780b80e3 ("FIT: add first support for compressed images")
> 
> Barebox uses the "compression" key from the FIT image which breaks loading my
> ramdisk (LZ4 compressed, should be decompressed by the kernel). Although the
> compression parameter should be "none" in that case, it actually isn't. Older
> Yocto releases used to set the actual compression type here:
> 
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/?h=kirkstone&id=2c58079222310443f08df51e9fd6ce234e7e0019
> 
> In U-Boot, the "compression" parameter is ignored for ramdisks due to this
> problem. Only a warning is printed:
> 
> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/bddd98573465
> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/boot/image-fit.c#L2289
> 
> Could you also apply this workaround to Barebox?

Thanks for the detailed report. I just Cc'd you on a patch that fixes this.
Please give it a test.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 
> regards,
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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