From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Boaz Ben-David <boaz.bd@wellsense-tech.com>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: bareboxenv usage
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:01:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6F4604.7040501@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6F270A.2040902@wellsense-tech.com>
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On 09/13/2011 11:48 AM, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
> On 09/13/11 12:14, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> On 09/13/2011 10:59 AM, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
>>> All I am asking is: do I need to use /dev/mtdblock or /dev/mtd when
>>> loading and saving envs
>> neither nor - loadenv& saveenv are not bad block aware. In barebox you
>> use the .bb devices, which are bad block are, under linux use nandwrite
>> + nanddump to write or read data from the nand into a file. Then use
>> loadenv/saveenv.
>>
>> cheers, Marc
>>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> First question, please tell me if these sequences are correct:
basically yes....but
> In Linux:
>
> - Read:
>
> 1.nanddump from the mtd device to a file.
read the nanddump help text, you need to skip bad blocks
> 2.bareboxenv -l the file dumped.
>
> -Write:
>
> 1.bareboxenv -s from source directory to a file
>
> 2.nandwrite that file to the mtd device.
use padding
cheers, Marc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-13 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-12 13:54 bareboxenv usage Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13 8:59 ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13 9:14 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-09-13 9:48 ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13 11:25 ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-09-13 12:00 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-09-13 12:01 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2011-09-13 12:07 ` Boaz Ben-David
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