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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:39:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5118CA57.4010804@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360354046-32392-1-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com>

Hi Joe,

On 02/08/2013 09:07 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> NAND is not good at handling absolute addresses to sectors for storing
> particular data.  The current implementation of the NAND env support
> works around this in several ways such as storing a pointer to the
> sector in the OOB of the first sector (interferes with some CRC) or
> supporting a range of sectors (which unless it is huge is not
> guaranteed to be safe).  None of these options address wear-leveling
> concerns or bad block handling.
> 
> Accessing the u-boot env from UBI eliminates these concerns.  However,
> it does require some of the basic settings for finding the UBI env to
> be in the default u-boot env.

Great. I'll review the patches in a bit and will send some comments.

Thanks,
Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-11 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-08 20:07 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Joe Hershberger
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:45   ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:52   ` Stefan Roese
2013-03-20 10:07     ` Joe Hershberger
2013-03-20 10:14       ` Stefan Roese
2013-03-20 10:19         ` Joe Hershberger
2013-03-20 13:11           ` Tom Rini
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:53   ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] env: Add support for UBI environment Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 10:54   ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-08 20:07 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] env: Add redundant env support to UBI env Joe Hershberger
2013-02-11 11:00   ` Stefan Roese
2013-02-11 10:39 ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2013-02-12  2:37 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Scott Wood
2013-02-12 16:04   ` Tom Rini
2013-02-12 18:10     ` Scott Wood
2013-02-18 18:27 ` Tom Rini
2013-03-26 21:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/6] " Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/6] ubi: Fix broken cleanup code in attach_by_scanning Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/6] ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/6] ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints Joe Hershberger
2013-04-02 10:46     ` Stefan Roese
2013-04-02 18:25       ` Tom Rini
2013-03-26 21:53   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/6] mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/6] env: Add support for UBI environment Joe Hershberger
2013-03-26 21:53   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/6] env: Add redundant env support to UBI env Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/7] ubi: Fix broken cleanup code in attach_by_scanning Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/7] ubi: Expose a few simple functions from the cmd_ubi Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 3/7] ubi: ubifs: Add documentation for README Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 4/7] ubi: ubifs: Turn off verbose prints Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 5/7] mtd: Make mtdparts work with pre-reloc env Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 6/7] env: Add support for UBI environment Joe Hershberger
2013-04-08 20:32     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 7/7] env: Add redundant env support to UBI env Joe Hershberger
2013-04-11 22:26     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for using an UBI volume for environment Tom Rini
2013-04-12  6:19       ` Stefan Roese
2013-04-12 11:30         ` Tom Rini
2013-04-12 12:52           ` Joe Hershberger
2013-04-12 14:14             ` Stefan Roese

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