Add utility functions to compress and decompress using lz4 and lzma
algorithms. In the latter case these use the legacy lzma support favoured
by coreboot's CBFS.
No tests are provided as these functions will be tested by the CBFS
tests in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
---
Changes in v2: None
tools/binman/README | 3 +-
tools/patman/tools.py | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 0ff30ef6fd9..7eda244bbe2 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ Running binman
First install prerequisites, e.g.
- sudo apt-get install python-pyelftools python3-pyelftools
+ sudo apt-get install python-pyelftools python3-pyelftools lzma-alone \
+ liblz4-tool
Type:
diff --git a/tools/patman/tools.py b/tools/patman/tools.py
index 0b3049f91f4..69d03d38608 100644
--- a/tools/patman/tools.py
+++ b/tools/patman/tools.py
@@ -374,3 +374,69 @@ def ToBytes(string):
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
return string.encode('utf-8')
return string
+
+def Compress(indata, algo):
+ """Compress some data using a given algorithm
+
+ Note that for lzma this uses an old version of the algorithm, not that
+ provided by xz.
+
+ This requires 'lz4' and 'lzma_alone' tools. It also requires an output
+ directory to be previously set up, by calling PrepareOutputDir().
+
+ Args:
+ indata: Input data to compress
+ algo: Algorithm to use ('none', 'gzip', 'lz4' or 'lzma')
+
+ Returns:
+ Compressed data
+ """
+ if algo == 'none':
+ return indata
+ fname = GetOutputFilename('%s.comp.tmp' % algo)
+ WriteFile(fname, indata)
+ if algo == 'lz4':
+ data = Run('lz4', '--no-frame-crc', '-c', fname, binary=True)
+ # cbfstool uses a very old version of lzma
+ elif algo == 'lzma':
+ outfname = GetOutputFilename('%s.comp.otmp' % algo)
+ Run('lzma_alone', 'e', fname, outfname, '-lc1', '-lp0', '-pb0', '-d8')
+ data = ReadFile(outfname)
+ elif algo == 'gzip':
+ data = Run('gzip', '-c', fname, binary=True)
+ else:
+ raise ValueError("Unknown algorithm '%s'" % algo)
+ return data
+
+def Decompress(indata, algo):
+ """Decompress some data using a given algorithm
+
+ Note that for lzma this uses an old version of the algorithm, not that
+ provided by xz.
+
+ This requires 'lz4' and 'lzma_alone' tools. It also requires an output
+ directory to be previously set up, by calling PrepareOutputDir().
+
+ Args:
+ indata: Input data to decompress
+ algo: Algorithm to use ('none', 'gzip', 'lz4' or 'lzma')
+
+ Returns:
+ Compressed data
+ """
+ if algo == 'none':
+ return indata
+ fname = GetOutputFilename('%s.decomp.tmp' % algo)
+ with open(fname, 'wb') as fd:
+ fd.write(indata)
+ if algo == 'lz4':
+ data = Run('lz4', '-dc', fname, binary=True)
+ elif algo == 'lzma':
+ outfname = GetOutputFilename('%s.decomp.otmp' % algo)
+ Run('lzma_alone', 'd', fname, outfname)
+ data = ReadFile(outfname)
+ elif algo == 'gzip':
+ data = Run('gzip', '-cd', fname, binary=True)
+ else:
+ raise ValueError("Unknown algorithm '%s'" % algo)
+ return data
--
2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
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