generate version 2 blockimgdiff files
Generate version 2 of the block_image_update transfer list format. This improves patch size by a different strategy for dealing with out-of-order transfers. If transfer A must be done before transfer B due to B overwriting A's source but we want to do B before A, we resolve the conflict by: - before B is executed, we save ("stash") the overlapping region (ie the blocks B will overwrite that A wants to read) - when A is executed, it will read those parts of source data from the stash rather than from the image. This reverses the ordering constraint; with these additions now B *must* go before A. The implementation of the stash is left up to the code that executes the transfer list to apply the patch; it could hold stashed data in RAM or on a scratch disk such as /cache, if available. The code retains the ability to build a version 1 block image patch; it's needed for processing older target-files. Change-Id: Ia9aa0bd45d5dc3ef7c5835e483b1b2ead10135fe
Loading
Please register or sign in to comment