[PATCH v6 00/12] Add FIT image overlay support
Marco Felsch
m.felsch at pengutronix.de
Wed Aug 20 02:48:32 PDT 2025
Hi,
this series add the support to load FIT image supplied devicetree overlays.
The overlay loading wasn't coupled to bootm due to the following
reasons:
- Users can add their own overlay filter
- By making use of the common overlay handling we can specifiy a
different/separate FIT image which provides only overlays.
- It should be possible to apply FIT image overlay to the barebox
live-tree (not implemented yet).
Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch at pengutronix.de>
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Changes in v6:
- Link to v5: https://lore.barebox.org/20250818-v2024-05-0-topic-fit-overlay-v5-0-b92e466a1d32@pengutronix.de
- devicetree.rst: Adapt documentation, drop absolute path requirement
- of_overlay_global_fixup(): Make use of %m instead of strerror(errno)
- Add more overlay matching debug output
- fit_open(): Drop absolute path requirement to allow "bootm bar.fit"
use-cases.
Changes in v5:
- Link to v4: https://lore.barebox.org/20250729-v2024-05-0-topic-fit-overlay-v4-0-af3ad99acde2@pengutronix.de
- fail if CONFIG_FITIMAGE=n and fit overlay was requested
- of_overlay_global_fixup(): adapt pr_err() if stat() fails
- of_overlay_global_fixup(): Drop duplicated pr_err() if FIT overlay load fails
- of_overlay_global_fixup(): Drop filetype detection
- devicetree.rst: Fix documentation
Changes in v4:
- Link to v3: https://lore.barebox.org/20240703-v2024-05-0-topic-fit-overlay-v3-0-c1fd766fd31d@pengutronix.de
- resolve possible filename links to make caching more robust
Changes in v3:
- Link to v2: https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/20240613125818.30499-1-m.felsch@pengutronix.de/
- drop of.overlay.fitconfigpattern usage and make use of an match-fn
instead
- fit_get_handle(): make use of strcmp
- open_fits: make it static
- fit_close(): use free unconditional
Changes in v2:
- Link to v1: https://lore.pengutronix.de/barebox/20240322164953.1772129-1-m.felsch@pengutronix.de/
- add caching to improve the overlay load time if the same FIT, which
provides the overlays, provides the kernel, of, initrd.
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Marco Felsch (12):
FIT: fix missing free in fit_open error path
FIT: fit_open_configuration: add match function support
of: overlay: make the pattern match function more generic
of: overlay: make search dir more generic
of: overlay: refactor of_overlay_global_fixup
FIT: make fit_config_verify_signature public
of: overlay: add FIT image overlay support
of: overlay: replace filename with an more unique name
of: overlay: add more debugging prints to of_overlay_matches_filter
FIT: fit_open: canonicalize provided filename
FIT: fit_open: save the filename
FIT: add support to cache opened fit images
Documentation/user/devicetree.rst | 26 ++---
common/bootm.c | 13 ++-
common/image-fit.c | 70 ++++++++++--
drivers/of/overlay.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
include/image-fit.h | 10 +-
include/of.h | 3 +-
6 files changed, 278 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 89bf1fcc998fc5fea0ce613d9930dd9ee39c0fb2
change-id: 20240703-v2024-05-0-topic-fit-overlay-76d5176c1d4e
Best regards,
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Marco Felsch <m.felsch at pengutronix.de>
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