[U-Boot] incremental environment updating

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

currently the env code will erase the entire env storage before writing back 
out the current env, even if the env storage has enough empty space to store 
the current env.  for example, if CONFIG_ENV_SIZE is declared as 0x2000 but 
the current env only takes up ~0x300 bytes, the whole 0x2000 is erased and 
then the ~0x300 gets written out.  seems like we can get a pretty good return 
for fairly low effort if we appended env updates rather than erasing/writing 
every time ?  it'd certainly be faster.  while systems with a dedicated sector 
this isnt so bad, but for people who have to embed the env in the middle of a 
large sector, this would be much faster most of the time.

has there been previous discussion along these lines that i havent seen ?
-mike
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