From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:58:09 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [ANNOUNCE] DATAFLASH DRIVER
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I agree with Haavard

> > The whole storage concept is really not working
> > when storage becomes larger than the SDRAM.
> > 
> > How do you download an 128 MB image over the network
> > to a machine with 64 MB SDRAM. - Major pain...
> > You need to be able to TFTP to flash directly
> > if you want to have an easy user interface.
> 
> Or start an operating system which can do all of this much faster and
> with support for more protocols.
Not necessarely you cn need to update or install the image from u-boot
> 
> > That is likely to require another way of handling storage.
> > and parameter parsing so you can do
> > tftp mmc0:kernel linux-2.6.28
> > or
> > tftp df3:fs rootfs.arm.ext2
> 
> Now, I kind of like that syntax, but I seem to recall it got shot down
> at some point too.
> 
I like too

Best Regards,
J.