From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stile Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:06:57 -0800 Subject: [U-Boot] is it possilbe to have uboot find the kernel in the file system? In-Reply-To: <20130103210731.AC920200089@gemini.denx.de> References: <1357246601.7939.128.camel@genx> <20130103210731.AC920200089@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <1357265217.7939.131.camel@genx> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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?