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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fw_env: add NAND support
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:25:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080903132534.D4DBC248A0@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080903115150.GA12440@lisa>

Dear Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Klotzb=FCcher?=,

In message <20080903115150.GA12440@lisa> you wrote:
> 
> Hmmm, what exactly are you doing here? IIRC environment in NAND was
> implemented slightly differently than NOR in that it reused the
> obsolete flag as a serial number. This number is incremented for every
> write so the env with the higher number is always the current one
> (besides the corner case where the number overflows, see
> env_nand.c). This way the obsoleting can be completly avoided.

Right, that was how you designed and implemented it.

> I can't see this in your patch?

I don't see it either. Thanks for pointing out.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02 17:05 [U-Boot] [PATCH] fw_env: add NAND support Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-09-02 20:32 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-09-02 21:18   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-09-02 22:29   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-09-02 22:45     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-09-03  9:19   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-09-03 13:23     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-09-03 14:00       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-09-03 11:19   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2008-09-03 11:51 ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-09-03 13:25   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2008-09-03 14:26   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski

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