[PATCH 04/10] filetype: introduce filetype_fit

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at barebox.org
Mon Jan 5 00:03:36 PST 2026


It's not possible to differentiate a flattened device tree from a FIT
image without parsing it for top-level /images and /configurations node.

We thus have some checks that check for filetype_oftree instead of
filetype_fit, which is confusing. Let's introduce filetype_fit and
handle it at the boot layer to allow for slightly more readable code.

This will pay off some more when we start making use of it in a later
commit.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
 common/bootm.c     |  7 +++----
 common/filetype.c  |  1 +
 common/image-fit.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 include/filetype.h |  7 +++++++
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/bootm.c b/common/bootm.c
index f1beac52ec15..1554a8f7f3f9 100644
--- a/common/bootm.c
+++ b/common/bootm.c
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ int bootm_boot(struct bootm_data *bootm_data)
 	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
 		goto err_out;
 
-	os_type = data->os_type = file_detect_type(data->os_header, PAGE_SIZE);
+	os_type = data->os_type = file_detect_boot_image_type(data->os_header, PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	if (!data->force && os_type == filetype_unknown) {
 		pr_err("Unknown OS filetype (try -f)\n");
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ int bootm_boot(struct bootm_data *bootm_data)
 		data->oftree_file = NULL;
 		data->initrd_file = NULL;
 		data->tee_file = NULL;
-		if (os_type != filetype_oftree) {
+		if (os_type != filetype_fit) {
 			pr_err("Signed boot and image is no FIT image, aborting\n");
 			ret = -EINVAL;
 			goto err_out;
@@ -599,10 +599,9 @@ int bootm_boot(struct bootm_data *bootm_data)
 	os_type_str = file_type_to_short_string(os_type);
 
 	switch (os_type) {
-	case filetype_oftree:
+	case filetype_fit:
 		ret = bootm_open_fit(data);
 		os_type = file_detect_type(data->fit_kernel, data->fit_kernel_size);
-		os_type_str = "FIT";
 		break;
 	case filetype_uimage:
 		ret = bootm_open_uimage(data);
diff --git a/common/filetype.c b/common/filetype.c
index 9b348377f222..80b7e1d98ce0 100644
--- a/common/filetype.c
+++ b/common/filetype.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static const struct filetype_str filetype_str[] = {
 	[filetype_gzip] = { "GZIP compressed", "gzip" },
 	[filetype_bzip2] = { "BZIP2 compressed", "bzip2" },
 	[filetype_oftree] = { "open firmware Device Tree flattened Binary", "dtb" },
+	[filetype_fit] = { "Flattened Image Tree", "FIT" },
 	[filetype_aimage] = { "android boot image", "android" },
 	[filetype_sh] = { "bourne SHell", "sh" },
 	[filetype_mips_barebox] = { "MIPS barebox image", "mips-barebox" },
diff --git a/common/image-fit.c b/common/image-fit.c
index 5c3a3e8f230f..d8fa5a4c8a8b 100644
--- a/common/image-fit.c
+++ b/common/image-fit.c
@@ -1081,10 +1081,19 @@ static int do_bootm_fit(struct image_data *data)
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
+static bool fitimage_check(struct image_handler *handler,
+			   struct image_data *data,
+			   enum filetype detected_filetype)
+{
+	return detected_filetype == filetype_oftree ||
+		detected_filetype == filetype_fit;
+}
+
 static struct image_handler fit_handler = {
 	.name = "FIT image",
 	.bootm = do_bootm_fit,
-	.filetype = filetype_oftree,
+	.filetype = filetype_fit,
+	.check_image = fitimage_check,
 };
 
 static int bootm_fit_register(void)
diff --git a/include/filetype.h b/include/filetype.h
index 0e19e46c513d..d404e0cf3c6a 100644
--- a/include/filetype.h
+++ b/include/filetype.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ enum filetype {
 	filetype_gzip,
 	filetype_bzip2,
 	filetype_oftree,
+	filetype_fit,
 	filetype_aimage,
 	filetype_sh,
 	filetype_mips_barebox,
@@ -108,6 +109,12 @@ static inline bool file_is_compressed_file(enum filetype ft)
 	}
 }
 
+static inline enum filetype file_detect_boot_image_type(const void *_buf, size_t bufsize)
+{
+	enum filetype ft = file_detect_type(_buf, bufsize);
+	return ft == filetype_oftree ? filetype_fit : ft;
+}
+
 #define ARM_HEAD_SIZE			0x30
 #define ARM_HEAD_MAGICWORD_OFFSET	0x20
 #define ARM_HEAD_SIZE_OFFSET		0x2C
-- 
2.47.3




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