From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 09:31:18 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] configs: Remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 for all MX6 platforms In-Reply-To: References: <1ada1455-a06b-289b-5fdb-676f442ee454@denx.de> <39942c55-0877-6024-a059-1c64ccdf929d@denx.de> <20190531124207.GY20781@bill-the-cat> <4a66c706-8fde-60a2-86ad-b2336e015794@denx.de> <20190531125137.GZ20781@bill-the-cat> <40101569-f6be-a7f0-b53f-2334659e3b80@denx.de> <20190531130806.GA20781@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <20190531133118.GD20781@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: