On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Marek Vasut marex@denx.de wrote:
Dear Lukasz Majewski,
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Ok, that means we can make use of this command ?
I cannot promise, that I will provide the "zip" support straightaway in the DFU.
On the one hand if DFU is the only user of this command we are adding in fact a "dead" code. On the other hand we can use proper #define CONFIG_CMD_ZIP to not compile it until we "really" use this.
I'd rather see a user and code added, not the other way.
common/cmd_zip.c is another user. :) And file systems could use the zip callback to directly create the zipped file. Since current ext4 and fat in uboot support write function, I think it could be a potential feature to add.
Are there any other potential "users" of this functionality (ZIP compression/decompression) in u-boot?
None that I know of. Is it really zip or is it gzip ?
It is porting from zlib, and is there any different for the compression side for zip and gzip?
This patch is pending for too long time, do we have a answer now whether it could be merged?
Thanks, Lei