[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH, resend] Support dynamic/patched NAND ENV offset

Harald Welte
2008-07-09T05:28:42Z

Hi again!

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:05:10AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

>> Therefore, I still believe that such a feature is useful and should be
>> merged into u-boot. If there are problems with my particular
>> implementation, I'm happy to address them.
>
> Can you base it off of the testing branch of the u-boot-nand-flash repo?

I just tried it, and the patch actually applies cleanly to the
nand-flash/testing branch. So feel free to go ahead and merge :)

>> I also have another patchset for what I call 'dynpart' support, i.e. the
>> dynamic calculation of a unit-specific partition table that ensures the
>> net size of partitions are as per spec, no matter how many of the
>> factory default blocks are located where. So it would even support
>> NAND devices with a worse spec than the ones that we were using.

I'll base that also on top of nand-flash/testing and submit later. Will
probably need some generalization for the board-level integration.

Cheers,
--
- Harald Welte <laforge@openmoko.org> http://openmoko.org/
============================================================================
Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone