Re: Commit 1b7898ee276b "powerpc/boot: Use the pre-boot decompression API" breaks boot

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Heiner Kallweit [off-list ref] wrote:

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IMHO in case of using cuboot no CONFIG_KERNEL_<COMPR TYPE> config option
should be set and Makefile + code in arch/powerpc/boot should be able
to deal with this situation:
- don't copy and build the decompression stuff
- use an alternative version of prep_kernel() in main.c which doesn't
  attempt to decompress the kernel image

This should be a cleaner solution than probing the kernel image whether
it's compressed or not.

This would be the patch implementing the idea. Advantage is that all
the unnecessary decompression code isn't built. Works fine for me.

I don't think this approach is viable. The wrapper code is shared
among the various output image formats some of which *will* contain a
compressed kernel image so we can't simply remove the decompressor
from the wrapper. A random example I found in the makefile was
CONFIG_BAMBOO:

image-$(CONFIG_BAMBOO) += treeImage.bamboo cuImage.bamboo

When building for this platform Kbuild will produce treeboot and a
cuboot image. Unlike uboot, Treeboot doesn't do any decompression so
the wrapper needs to decompress the kernel itself. The probing
solution more or less matches the old behaviour (which we know works)
so I think we should just stick with that.

- Oliver