Dear Simon,
In message 0787afb7-2da1-4eaa-437e-6f7c7582809c@de.pepperl-fuchs.com you wrote:
I'd still argue that the standard example in 'multi.its' should have compression = "none" for the ramdisks.
OK, this is your position then. I can only explain where we are coming from: in the early days of U-Boot (well, PPCBoot by then) resources were much tighter than today - look at the examples in the README: a v2.4.4 Linux kernel image would be around 780 kB uncompressed or 330 kB compressed. At this time it was considered a waste of resources to have the gzip uncompression code in the boot loader and again duplicated in the Linux kernel - so it was omitted there and U-Boot would do all uncompression, also of the ramdisks. I agree this is not standard any more, but it is still a valid use case, I think. I know, I'm an old man ;-)
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk