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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:39:19 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for using an UBI volume for
 environment
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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