[U-Boot] [PATCH] LZO: Add a LZO compression feature

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Oct 1 15:54:49 CEST 2010


Dear Kyungmin Park,

In message <AANLkTi=HNkqfunOZMrWGG_=GhJoR6EfiGwWUkGgzc=N4 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> There's request from other team. They want to transfer the binary but
> it's written as ubifs filesystem.
> So download the binary to RAM and then mkfs.ubifs at this address and
> ubinize it finally.
> Then write it to flash.
> When mkfs.ubifs, it requires it.

You mean you want to add both support for ubinize and mkfs.ubifs to
U-Boot?  Would it not make more sense to boot a (minimal) Linux kernel
for that purposes?

> > What exactly are the licensing terms?
> It's from kernel code. do you want to add the GPL v2?

I think we should do that (if that's what the original code is
released under; I'm not so certain), to make things clear.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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