Turn the bulk of applypatch into a static library so it can be used
from the updater. Also build it as a standalone executable for use by
the existing OTA mechanism.
Modify applypatch to be able to write MTD partitions as well as read
them. Make applypatch save a backup copy of the contents of an MTD
partition it reads in cache, to be used in case an update is
interrupted while writing back to MTD. Modify OTA package creation
script to send boot image updates in patch form.
Images (like boot and recovery) consist of large sections of gzipped
data interspersed with other data. To do effective binary patching of
these files, we need to apply patches to the gzipped parts in
'uncompressed space', that is, we decompress, apply a patch, then
recompress to obtain the desired output.
This change defines a new format with these patches, which is
basically a description of how the source and target files are to be
divided up into chunks and a bsdiff patch for each chunk. We add a
new host executable, "imgdiff", for generating these patches from
source and target images, and add support in applypatch for
recognizing this format and applying it on the device.
Doug Zongker