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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:27:59 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] gunzip: add gzwrite routine for extracting
	compresed images to block device
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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