[U-Boot] [PATCH] lib: zlib: update to 1.2.6

[Lei Wen]

Hi Mike,

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2012 03:55:19 Lei Wen wrote:
>> In this patch, I update the current zlib from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6.
>>
>> There is a lot of warnings when using checkpatch script, I don't know
>> whether I should fix it or not...
>> Since it is just copy from as it is from upstream zlib 1.2.6, so I didn't
>> do the correction, so don't be panic when use checkpatch.
>
> did you test the performance ?  i found it went down a bit which is why i
> didn't post a patch to update it to a newer version.  improvements in API's we
> don't use aren't a good reason for updating ...

I didn't do the performance test... Just did the compile and bring up
a gziped kernel
with the update zlib.

Is there some easy test case which could run in the uboot to show the
unzip speed?
I'd like to help to test it...

But your saying is right, we should always focus on our current usage.

> -mike

Thanks,
Lei