From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Jnhvl-0003lI-5Z for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:22:41 +0000 To: Bernard Blackham From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:49:47 +0800." <4808DF3B.2080702@largestprime.net> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:22:37 +0200 Sender: wd@denx.de Message-Id: <20080420222237.4AE5324657@gemini.denx.de> Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , In message <4808DF3B.2080702@largestprime.net> you wrote: > > Wolfgang showed some interest briefly too.[1] I am definitely interested. > > The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not > > fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice > > as much time to boot. We have the same (at at least similar) problems when using JFFS2 file systems in U-Boot. Yet, being able to do this is quite useful in many situations. > > However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan > > results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice. That would be of course a good thing to have :-) > If there's no compelling reasons not to, I'll try and find some time to > work on ubi in uboot. I'm not expecting it to be easy though :) Thanks in advance, and good luck! Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de All these theories, diverse as they are, have two things in common: they explain the observed facts, and they are completeley and utterly wrong. - Terry Pratchett, _The Light Fantastic_