From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Shall 'bmp' uncompress automagically?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:16:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313171623.GJ444@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120313102309.GB2488@pengutronix.de>
On 11:23 Tue 13 Mar , Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
> > > since we have 'file_detect_type' in barebox, we could use it to automagically
> > > uncompress BMP files. Pseudo-code:
> > >
> > > if (file_detect_type(bmp) != BMP) {
> > > /* No BMP? Try to depack stream */
> > > ret = uncompress(bmp, unpacked_bmp);
> > > if (ret < 0 || file_detect_type(unpacked_bmp) != BMP)
> > > return -ENOBMP;
> > > }
> > >
> > > Is something like this wanted? Or shall this be done entirely via scripts?
> > >
> > > if [ $file is somehow detected as compressed ]
> > > uncompress $file /bmp
> > > bmp /bmp
> > > rm /bmp
> > > else
> > > bmp $file
> > > fi
> > I prefer the second one
>
> Care to explain why?
I the image could be embedeed in other format (uImage, android etc..)
And I'm using such command to boot a kernel via DFU too
Best Regards,
J.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-10 22:10 Wolfram Sang
2012-03-13 3:57 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-03-13 10:23 ` Wolfram Sang
2012-03-13 17:16 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-03-23 9:46 ` Wolfram Sang
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