From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Flashing images bigger than ram
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:24:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB01401.4030009@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef9097660909151439i31a455by9d0efa7a72785666@mail.gmail.com>
Ben Goska wrote:
> Is there a standard way to have U-Boot flash really large images? I
> want to setup rootfs flashing from U-Boot but this requires flashing
> an image that is bigger than the ram of my system. I thought about
> breaking the image into chunks, but when flashing to NAND with bad
> blocks it is difficult to handle skipping the bad blocks.
Have you looked into ubi? I'm not too familiar with it, but my
understanding is that it has a better way of dealing with bad blocks.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 21:39 [U-Boot] Flashing images bigger than ram Ben Goska
2009-09-15 22:24 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-09-15 23:30 ` Kyungmin Park
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