On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Lukasz Majewski, > > [...] > > > > 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
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