Re: [RFC] Add ubi volume image support, fix ubifs

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 10-02-09 23:59, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:43:07PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 10 feb 2009, om 21:48 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Hey all.  I'd like to commit the following patch.
>> Looks ok, one minor featurerequest:
>>
>>
>>> +IMAGE_CMD_ubi = "echo \[ubifs\]>  ubinize.cfg ; echo mode=ubi>>
>>> ubinize.cfg ; echo image=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/$
>>> {IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ubifs>>  ubinize.cfg ; echo vol_id=0>>
>>> ubinize.cfg ; echo vol_type=dynamic>>  ubinize.cfg ; echo
>>> vol_name=rootfs>>  ubinize.cfg ; echo vol_flags=autoresize>>
>>> ubinize.cfg;mkfs.ubifs -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} -o ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/$
>>> {IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ubifs ${MKUBIFS_ARGS}&&  ubinize -o $
>>> {DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ubi ${UBINIZE_ARGS}
>>> ubinize.cfg"
>> echo vol_name=${MACHINE}-rootfs would be nice :)
>
> Really?  iirc from the mounting commandline stuff that means you have to
> pass in machine-rootfs rather than just rootfs, ie
> root=ubi0:machine-rootfs not root=ubi0:rootfs

You'll have to update your bootloaders anyway, so cutting down on 
'flashed wrong machine' errors is a big win :)

regards,

Koen