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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] mtd: gpmi: make blockmark swapping optional
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Hi,

Huang Shijie wrote:
> 于 2014年03月28日 17:33, Huang Shijie 写道:
> > 于 2014年03月28日 17:01, Lothar Waßmann 写道:
> >> There is no need for the ROM code to access any other partition than
> >> the bootloader itself. Thus Linux can perfectly well be booted from
> > Assume the ROM only access the partition which contains the 
> > bootloader, and
> > the ROM does the swapping for the pages(but we do not do the swapping 
> > to these pages),
> I mean the kernel do not do the swapping when we burn the uboot to the NAND.
> 
The kernel need not be able to write the bootloader to NAND. 
If you want a kernel that can do it, you just need to boot it with one
line in the DTB removed.


Lothar Waßmann
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