From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:59:57 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] ubi and u-boot
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Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:21 +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> > [apologies for the cross post]
> > Is anyone working on ubi/ubifs support in u-boot?
> 
> I am not aware of anyone actively working on porting UBI to upstream
> U-Boot at this exact moment.

Is it even a good idea?  The UBI (version 1 :-) initial scan is not
fast for large flash, and if the bootloader does it too, that's twice
as much time to boot.

However, if there was a protocol for bootloader to pass the scan
results to the booted kernel, that would be very nice.

-- Jamie