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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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* Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net> [131205 08:13]:
> > >> I'd like to be able to update MLO and u-boot from within a booted Linux
> > >> system on the device (I have to resort to u-boot for that where I can
> > >> control the ECC scheme used)
> 
> > > Meanwhile, to do this we use a small userspace program created by
> > > Javier Martinez in order to flash the MLO in our OMAP3 boards. See
> > > http://git.isee.biz/?p=pub/scm/writeloader.git;a=summary
> 
> > we used another aproach here. See
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/43804
> 
> pretty much what I have been looking for, thanks!

Hmm well both methods should work, but is there anything stopping us
merging the module param patch to the mainline tree?

Regards,

Tony