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    image: Add compressed Image parsing support in booti. · 414c34ed
    Atish Patra authored and Tom Rini's avatar Tom Rini committed
    
    
    Add compressed Image parsing support so that booti can parse both
    flat and compressed Image to boot Linux. Currently, it is difficult
    to calculate a safe address for every board where the compressed
    image can be decompressed. It is also not possible to figure out the
    size of the compressed file as well. Thus, user need to set two
    additional environment variables kernel_comp_addr_r and filesize to
    make this work.
    
    Following compression methods are supported for now.
    lzma, lzo, bzip2, gzip.
    
    lz4 support is not added as ARM64 kernel generates a lz4 compressed
    image with legacy header which U-Boot doesn't know how to parse and
    decompress.
    
    Tested on HiFive Unleashed and Qemu for RISC-V.
    Tested on Qemu for ARM64.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAtish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
    [trini: Fix minor rST formatting problems]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
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