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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:47:18 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] USB-storage or NAND-flash on AMCC 440ep (bamboo)
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Hi Andre,

On Friday 14 October 2005 11:36, Andr? Berggren wrote:
> Are there any known bugs for USB-storage on this CPU in u-boot?

Sorry, but I never tested it. The PPC440EP USB port was done by Embedded 
Planet for the initial Yosemite port.

> We have a custom board based on bamboo and thinking on booting from USB
> instead of NAND because of the long initiation time for jffs2 on
> NAND-flash. At the moment JFFS2 initiation takes about 35s, and loading
> kernel, root-image and a fpga-image to ram take another 1m 40s.

Hmmm. Why don't you partition your NAND chip and use the RAW-NAND interface 
(e.g. nand read...). This will bring you the fastest boot time.

Best regards,
Stefan