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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Bernard Blackham <bernard@largestprime.net>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:59:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080418165957.GG31520@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208536808.6654.6.camel@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:21 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> > [apologies for the cross post]
> > Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot?
> 
> I am not aware of anyone actively working on porting UBI to upstream
> U-Boot at this exact moment.

Is it even a good idea?  The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not
fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice
as much time to boot.

However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan
results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice.

-- Jamie

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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:59:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080418165957.GG31520@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208536808.6654.6.camel@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:21 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> > [apologies for the cross post]
> > Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot?
> 
> I am not aware of anyone actively working on porting UBI to upstream
> U-Boot at this exact moment.

Is it even a good idea?  The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not
fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice
as much time to boot.

However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan
results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-18 14:21 ubi and u-boot Bernard Blackham
2008-04-18 14:21 ` [U-Boot-Users] " Bernard Blackham
2008-04-18 16:40 ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-18 16:40   ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-18 16:59   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-04-18 16:59     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-18 17:49     ` Bernard Blackham
2008-04-18 17:49       ` Bernard Blackham
2008-04-20 22:22       ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-20 22:22         ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21 12:05         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-21 13:36           ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-04-21 13:36             ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-04-21 13:44             ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-21 13:44               ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-21 13:50               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-21 14:01                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-22 11:44                 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-04-22 11:44                   ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-04-22  1:09               ` [U-Boot-Users] How to set CPU speed to 266mhz s3c2410? p
2008-04-23  7:05                 ` michael
2008-04-23  7:44                 ` Martin Krause
2008-04-23 23:58                 ` p
2008-04-22 12:30               ` [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot Jamie Lokier
2008-04-22 12:30                 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-18 19:19     ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-18 19:19       ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-20 16:04       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-20 16:04         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-20 16:44         ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-20 16:44           ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-20 17:29           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-20 17:29             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-21  1:05         ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-04-21  1:05           ` Hamish Moffatt
2008-04-19  9:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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