On some hardware, using latest u-boot blobs (~2023), the kernel cannot load because it is compressed with an "unsupported compression type 4". I asked the supplier of the blobs (https://github.com/ophub/u-boot) if this can be fixed, with the sad response "Amlogic is not open source".
However, there is an obvious easy solution that comes at no cost: simply supply the uncompressed kernel files alongside LibreELEC.
How to reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Have a particular oddball Amlogic box
Have no choice but to use the latest u-boot binary from Amlogic
Upon kernel load in serial console, the message appears "unsupported compression type 4"
4. Install Armbian with Linux 6 instead, which works, solely for the reason of not using kernel image compression
Information
905d Mecool Ki Pro with updated u-boot-p212.bin (it is from 2021 or 2023 or so)
LibreELEC 11.0
heitbaum
commented
6 months ago
Describe the bug
On some hardware, using latest u-boot blobs (~2023), the kernel cannot load because it is compressed with an "unsupported compression type 4". I asked the supplier of the blobs (https://github.com/ophub/u-boot) if this can be fixed, with the sad response "Amlogic is not open source".
However, there is an obvious easy solution that comes at no cost: simply supply the uncompressed kernel files alongside LibreELEC.
How to reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Information
905d Mecool Ki Pro with updated u-boot-p212.bin (it is from 2021 or 2023 or so) LibreELEC 11.0