From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] configs: Remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 for all MX6 platforms
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 09:31:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190531133118.GD20781@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd2ab069-8b73-6ca8-36d1-078c12869144@denx.de>
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 03:22:05PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 5/31/19 3:08 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> On 5/31/19 2:51 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>> On 5/31/19 2:42 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>>>> On 5/31/19 2:18 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:17 AM Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> So I will have to track a downstream patch for wandboard now ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I didn't mention we want to remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 from Wandboard.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ah OK, good, thanks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I do want to remove it from mx6sabresd for sure.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How does the sabresd boot ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How does your wandboard/novena boot? I'd have sworn most distros do
> >>>>> VFAT /boot not ext4 /boot. Of course I'm still surprised anyone is
> >>>>> loading u-boot from fs on iMX since I always see that as raw offsets.
> >>>>
> >>>> Novena is ext4 for sure, for two reasons -- VFAT has patent problems and
> >>>> putting it at raw offset is just an accident waiting to happen (silent
> >>>> FT corruption if the image gets too large)
> >>>
> >>> So you've setup your own one-off. That's fine and something to support.
> >>> But it's irregular and uncommon.
> >>
> >> I would say this is the recommended approach over just writing U-Boot
> >> binary to random offset on the card at hoping that your data will be
> >> safe the next time you update it ?
> >
> > No, it's generally not.
>
> That's not the point, the point is that writing data to random offset is
> likely to end up with silent FS corruption eventually.
No, it's generally not.
--
Tom
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-25 16:49 [U-Boot] [PATCH] configs: Remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 for all MX6 platforms Ezequiel Garcia
2019-05-25 20:15 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-25 21:47 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2019-05-25 22:24 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-25 22:45 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2019-05-25 22:57 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-25 23:08 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-25 23:20 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-25 23:23 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-25 23:30 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-26 0:33 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-26 2:58 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-26 8:22 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-05-26 10:45 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-26 11:46 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-05-26 11:52 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-26 12:30 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-26 15:04 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-05-26 16:18 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2019-05-26 17:30 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-27 2:59 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2019-05-27 3:33 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 10:39 ` Stefano Babic
2019-05-31 10:42 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-05-31 12:17 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 12:18 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-05-31 12:20 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 12:42 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-31 12:46 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 12:51 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-31 12:57 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 13:08 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-31 13:22 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 13:31 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2019-05-31 13:40 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 12:43 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-05-31 12:45 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 12:51 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-05-31 12:58 ` Marek Vasut
2019-05-31 13:08 ` Tom Rini
2019-05-31 12:24 ` Ezequiel Garcia
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