On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 08:33:16PM +0200, Stephan Gerhold wrote: > At the moment android_image_get_kcomp() can automatically detect > LZ4 compressed kernels and the compression specified in uImages. > However, especially on ARM64 Linux is often compressed with GZIP. > Attempting to boot an Android image with a GZIP compressed kernel > image currently results in a very strange crash, e.g. > > Starting kernel ... > "Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x02000000 > ... > Code: 5555d555 55555d55 555f5555 5d555d55 (00088b1f) > > Note the 1f8b, which are the "magic" bytes for GZIP images. > > U-Boot already has the image_decomp_type() function that checks for > the magic bytes of bzip2, gzip, lzma and lzo. It's easy to make use > of it here to increase the chance that we do the right thing and the > user does not become confused with strange crashes. > > This allows booting Android boot images that contain GZIP-compressed > kernel images. > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <[email protected]>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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