From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:55:48 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Merge patch series "spl: Use common function for loading/parsing images"
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Merge patch series "spl: Use common function for loading/parsing images"

To quote the author:

This series adds support for loading all image types (Legacy (with and without
LZMA), FIT (with and without LOAD_FIT_FULL), and i.MX) to the MMC, SPI, NOR,
NET, FAT, EXT, NVMe, and semihosting load methods. It does this by introducing a
helper function which handles the minutiae of invoking the proper parsing
function, and reading the rest of the image.

Hopefully, this will make it easier for load methods to support all image types
that U-Boot supports, without having undocumented unsupported image types. I
applied this to several loaders which were invoking spl_load_simple_fit and/or
spl_parse_image_header, but I did not use it with others (e.g. DFU/RAM) which
had complications in the mix.

This series is organized roughly into two parts. Patches up to "spl: Add generic
spl_load function" are all setup or size-reduction oriented. Later patches
generally convert various load functions to spl_load.

bloat-o-meter results (for CONFIG_SPL only) at [1]. Size growth has been the
bigegst challenge to preparing this series. I have used every trick I can think
of to reduce bloat. Some SAMA boards no longer fit, but I have a plan to fix
them [2].

This is bar far the largest and most-difficult revision of this series to-date.
There are probably still things which can reduce the size, but I have been
working on this series for the better part of two months and I think it is a
good idea to get some feedback. Because of the SAMA bloat, this series will not
pass CI, so I expect to do a v7 before this is ready to apply. Feel free,
however, to apply patches in the first half (especially the fixes).

This version of the series is better-tested than ever before, thanks to some new
unit tests. However, things like the i.MX ROMAPI are untested. NAND should also
be tested more-widely, for reasons listed in the commit message. I encourage you
try this series out on your favorite board.

[1] https://gist.github.com/Forty-Bot/5bfe88676dd3c2aec6ebc23abb08e06f
    This includes some changes to am335x_evm_spiboot and am65x_evm_r5_usbdfu
    which have since been undone. This was ran for v6.
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20231105022742.632175-1-seanga2@gmail.com/
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