[PATCH firmware-utils v1 00/10] Refactor image ingestion to support new formats

[Sander Vanheule]

On Fri, 2023-02-03 at 23:03 +0100, Sander Vanheule wrote:
> TP-Link is playing fast and loose with the safeloader format, having
> resulted in different types of images with their specific quirks.
> 
> A new incompatible format is currently used in the wild, which places
> the payload partition table at a different offset, causing the image
> parsers to fail. [1]
> 
> This series starts by fixing a bug or two and cleaning up the code a
> tiny bit, and then refactors the different image ingestion options to
> use one common parser.
> 
> Finally, support for the QNEW and Cloud images types is added through the
> new parser. The latter doesn't really need explicit support at the
> moment, so the patch serves mostly as documentation.
> 
> [1] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/148982
> 
> Best,
> Sander
> 
> Sander Vanheule (10):
>   tplink-safeloader: stricter free_image_partition()
>   tplink-safeloader: use enum for table types
>   tplink-safeloader: replace hardcoded offsets
>   tplink-safeloader: stop at nameless partition
>   tplink-safeloader: don't end-pad sysupgrade file
>   tplink-safeloader: ignore NULLs in version info
>   tplink-safeloader: refactor image ingestion
>   tplink-safeloader: add vendor info support
>   tplink-safeloader: add QNEW image detection
>   tplink-safeloader: add Cloud image detection

If there are no objections, I'll merge these patches in the coming days.

Best,
Sander