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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?

  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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