From: John Stile <john@stilen.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] is it possilbe to have uboot find the kernel in the file system?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:06:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357265217.7939.131.camel@genx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130103210731.AC920200089@gemini.denx.de>
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 22:07 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear John Stile,
>
> In message <1357246601.7939.128.camel@genx> you wrote:
> > Is it possible to add my kernel to the rootfs partition rather than have
> > a separate partition?
>
> Yes, it is - assuming you use a storage device and a file system type
> supported by U-Boot.
>
> > I am using U-Boot 1.3.4, on a at91sam9g20ek (256Mb Nand, 8Mb Nor), and
> > use the sam-ba firmware upload tool.
>
> Oops... v1.3.4 is way over 4 years old. Please consider it hopelessly
> obsoleted and completely unsupported.
>
> > I'd like to put everything on nand, ignore nor, and hold redundant
> > areas, in perpetration for firmware updates.
>
> For NAND flash, you should use UBI UBIFS (and yes, U-Boot can load
> from a UBIFS file system). The first step to this goal is an update
> to recent code, though.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
u-boot-2012.10.tar.bz2 does not have support for the at91sam9g20ek
I treid to apply my patches for u-boot-1.3.4, but they are way too old.
Is there a newer patch set?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-04 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 20:56 [U-Boot] is it possilbe to have uboot find the kernel in the file system? John Stile
2013-01-03 21:07 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-04 2:06 ` John Stile [this message]
2013-01-04 8:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-04 18:19 ` John Stile
2013-01-04 20:46 ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-01-04 22:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-05 1:25 ` John Stile
2013-01-05 1:53 ` Bo Shen
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