[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] add zip command support for uboot

[Lei Wen]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Marek Vasut <marex at 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