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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] gunzip: add gzwrite routine for extracting compresed images to block device
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:27:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201502161727.59586.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424042167-27008-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>

On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 12:16:06 AM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> Initial filesystem images are generally highly compressible.
> 
> Add a routine gzwrite that allows gzip-compressed images to be
> written to block devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>

Hi!

Stupid question -- can't you compress the thing in DRAM and then use fatwrite
or ext4write to write it to FS? Or are you really after writing the data to a
raw block device (in which case, you can use similar commands for raw block
devices) ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-16 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-15 23:16 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] gunzip: add gzwrite routine for extracting compresed images to block device Eric Nelson
2015-02-15 23:16 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] unzip: add gzwrite command to write compressed image " Eric Nelson
2015-04-23 13:14   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2015-02-16 16:27 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2015-02-16 17:03   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] gunzip: add gzwrite routine for extracting compresed images " Tom Rini
2015-02-16 17:33     ` Eric Nelson
2015-02-17 19:46       ` Marek Vasut
2015-02-17 18:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 " Eric Nelson
2015-02-23 18:59   ` Eric Nelson
2015-02-23 22:33   ` Tom Rini
2015-02-24  0:43     ` Eric Nelson
2015-04-23 13:13   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, V2, " Tom Rini

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